Investigation of relationship between imagery and sportive confidence in volleyball athletes

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between imaging in sports and the sportive confidence in athletes who play volleyball. The population of the research is made up of elite athletes who play volleyball. 277 athletes, from 3 league levels (1st League, 2nd League, and Super League) between the ages of 18 and 35 (23.32 ± 4.16), of which 157 are women (21.78 ± 3.54), and 120 are men (25.33 ± 4.04) form the sample population of the research.Personal Information Form, Imaging Inventory, and Continuous Sportive Self-Confidence Inventory were applied to collect data. All the statistical analyses were conducted on the software IBM SPSS version 21.0. Frequency analysis was conducted to determine the demographic characteristics of the athletes. Correlation analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between the sub-dimensions of imaging in sports and sportive confidence. Normality analysis was conducted before making a comparison between the variables. Independent T-test was applied to examine the distribution of the scores of sub-dimensions of imaging in sports and sportive confidence according to the variables gender, status of national team participation, and athlete's age, and Turkey HSD test with One-Way ANOVA was applied to examine the distribution according to active years in sports, age, and league level. The significance level was taken as (p≤0.05) for the analyses. After the findings from the analysis, it was determined that there was a relationship in positive direction between the sub-dimensions of imaging in sports and sportive confidence scores according to the variables of age, gender, sports age, the status of national team participation, league level, and active years in sports (p<0.05). Keywords: Volleyball, Sportive Confidence, Imagination