Investigation of mental stamina, struggle and threat perceptions and psychological skill levels of esports players

The main purpose of this research is to examine the mental endurance levels, challenge and threat perceptions and psychological skill levels of esports players. 130 amateur male esports players (Xage=22.37±4.30) voluntarily participated in the research. With a view to determine the mental resilience of the esportsmen participating in the research, the Mental Toughness Questionnaire in Sports was applied; to evaluate their perception of struggle and threat, the Challenge and Threat Scale in Sports was used; to find out their psychological skill levels, the Psychological Skills Evaluation Scale of the Athletes is performed and to measure the demographic information of the participants a personal information form is put into use in order to calculate the demographic information of the participants. While conducting the analysis, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis (pearson) and stepwise regression (stepwise) methods are applied. This research was conducted to the threat and struggle perceptions, psychological skill levels and mental endurance levels of esports players do not show a statistically significant difference in terms of the type of game they are esports players. (p>0.05). While it is monitored that there is a weak negative correlation between the threat perception, trust, continuity and Psychological Skill Total values, there is a moderate negative correlation between the control and the Mental Toughness Total (p<0.05). As a consequence of the regression analysis, control sub-dimension and psychological skill level are detected as negative determinants of threat perception (F=30,201, p<0.05), and trust sub-dimension is found as positive determinants of perception of challenge (F=12.341, p<0,05). In conclusion, it is inspected that as the mental toughness and psychological skill levels of esports players increase, their perception of threat decreases while their perception of challenge increases.