Application of mindfulness acceptance and commitment processes in professional rugby players

The purpose of this research is the application of the procedures of mindfulness, acceptance and commitment in professional rugby players. There search consists of two parts. In the first part of the chart, the Athlete Mindfulness Questionnaire is adapted to Turkish. To research 417 licensed athletes participated from different sports branches both individual sport and team sports. The Athlete Mindfulness Questionnaire consists of 16 articles and 3 sub-dimensions and is evaluated as a quintette likert scale. Also to achieve criterion-related validity Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ) are used. Personal information forms and all the scales that are used were applied to participants through the application of forms via the internet. There search model and confirmatory factor analysisare tested through conducted analyses of reliability and validity. The findings prove that adaptatıon of AMQ to Turkish to assess athletes mindfulness levels is a reliable and valid method. In the second research, the 7 weeks protocol of mindfulness, acceptance and commitment (MAC) developed by Gardner and Moore (2007) is applied. Pretest-posttest different sample group model from the parttrial model is used. The experimental and control groups are created through impartial assignments. To research 52 licensed rugby players that of 29 women and 23 men participated. To collect data AMQ, PSS, and ABQ of all which we adapted to Turkish. 7 weeks of MAC Protocol is conducted with the experimental group. In the analysis process of the collection date, descriptive statistics, Cronbach α reliability analysis, correlation analysis, MANOVA for repeated measurements are used. A significant difference was found between pretest and posttest results in mindfulness and perceived stress levels (p< .05). While there was an increase in the level of mindfulness in the experimental group, there was also a decrease in the levels of stress and burnout. Inline with all this information, the application of the MAC Protocol in rugby players has provided significant and positive differences in conscious mindfulness and stress levels.