Examination of the relationship between mental toughness and success motivation ofathletes playing in the Turkish Ampute Football Super League

The aim of the search is to examine the relationship between the mental toughness and success motivation of amputee athletes who are attached to the Turkish Physically Disabled Sports Federation and struggle in the Turkish Amputee Football Super League and to find out whether there is a significant difference according to various variables. The population of the search; While 280 amputee athletes from 13 teams competing in the Turkish Amputee Football Super League, which is attached to the Turkish Physically Handicapped Sports Federation, constitute the sample; It consists of 177 athletes choosen by random sampling method according to the sample test and based on voluntariness. In our research; Personal information form to determine demographic characteristics (Age, Marital Status, Education Level, Years of Playing Sports, Years of Working with a Trainer), Mental Endurance Inventory in Sports developed by Sheard and his friends ,adapted to Turkish by Altıntaş and Korunç, and developed by Wills, by Tiryaki and Gödelek. The Sports-Specific Achievement Motivation Scale adapted into Turkish was used.. SPSS 22 package program was used in the analysis of the data. According to the kurtosis and skewness coefficient values, it was accepted that the research data exhibited a normal distribution. The t-test was used for pairwise comparisons between groups, the Anova test for multiple comparisons of more than two, and the LSD test to find significant differences between groups. As a result, while the mental toughness levels of the participants did not show a significant difference according to the demographic variables, a significant difference was found in the variables of age, years of doing sports and years of working with the same trainer according to sport-specific success motivation. Furthermore, in our study, it was concluded that there is a significant relationship between the mental endurance and success motivation of the athletes playing in the Turkish Amputee Football Super League in the data on the correlation between mental toughness and achievement motivation. Key Words: Amputee Football, Mental Toughness, Success Motivation