Determination of i̇magination and optimal performance emotional state level of university students who are educated in folk dances

The aim of this study was to determine the imagination and optimal performance emotional state level of university students who are educated in folk dance classes according to certain variables. In the research, a method for descriptive and relational scanning aimed at revealing the current situation has been used. The research consists of two phases. In the first phase of the study, determination of imagination and optimal performance mood levels were for the students who received the folk dance training. According to the gender, age, income level and competitive level variables of the students, whether the level of determination of imagination and optimal performance emotional state were different was evaluated by various statistical methods. Students studying at Bartın University School of Physical Education and Sports (n=552) in the 2018-2019 academic year have formed the universe of the study. The sample part of the study consists of 149 [n(male)=91, n(female)=58] students who have been educated at Bartın University School of Physical Education and Sports and who have been educated in folk dances. Personal data form developed by the researcher as data collection tools in the research; of imagination inventory in sport adapted by Hall, Mack, Paivio and Hausenblas (1998) and translated into Turkish by Kizildag and Tiryaki (2012) and situational optimal performance emotional state scale which was developed by Marsh (1996) and adapted to Turkish by Aşçı, Çağlar, Eklund, Altıntaş and Jackson (2007) was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive frequency and percentage distributions describing the personal characteristics of the participants were removed, arithmetic averages and standard deviations of the responses to the scales were calculated and distributions were determined for imagination and of optimal performance emotional state levels. The T-test was used to compare the two variables with the independent variables and to test the imagination and optimal performance status levels with parametric tests. One-way variance analysis (ANOVA) was used for three or more cluster comparisons. Tukey HSD multiple comparison test was used because of the homogeneity of the variances to determine the source of significant differences found in the ANOVA outcome. Pearson Moments Multiplication Correlation (r) Coefficient technique was used in order to reveal the relationship between the imagination and the optimal performance levels of emotion. Significance level was taken as 0.05 in the analyses. According to the results of the study, no significant difference was found between the age variable of the participating students and the sub-dimensions of the imagination inventory and sub-dimensions of the optimal performance emotional state. There was no statistically significant difference between the gender variable and the mean scores of the subscales of the optimal performance emotional state scale. However, there is a statistically significant difference between the motivational overall arousal subscale of the imagination inventory and the mean scores of the gender variable in sport. There was a significant difference between the income level variable and the of the imagination inventory motivational special imagery and the motivational general stimulated subdimensions. There is no significant difference between imagination and optimal performance emotional state subscales with the competition level variable. In addition, a positive-directional, meaningful relationship between the imagination sub-dimensions and the sub-dimensions of the emotional state of optimal performance was determined.