Examing of psychological resilience levels and proactive personality specilities of taekwondo athletes on the effect of sports branch

Purpose: In this study, it was aimed to examine the effect of psychological resilience levels and proactive personality traits of taekwondo athletes over the age of 18 on branch success and to examine the predictive power of proactive personality structure on psychological resilience level. Materials and Methods: A total of 341 taekwondo athletes, 178 women and 163 men, participated in the research. A Personal information form, the scale of psychological resilience for adults and scale of proactive personality is used for this research. In the analysis of data, Independent groups T-test is performed to compare of two groups, one-way variance analysis/analysis of variance (ANOVA) is performed to compare more than two groups, Pearson correlation is performed to reveal the relationship between variables and finally, regression analysis is performed to define the predictive power between dependent variables. Significance is accepted as p<.05. Findings: According to the data obtained as a result of the research, it is concluded that psychological resilience and level of proactive personality show significant differences on the variables of personal susccess and education status. It's observed that there is no significant relationship between the variables of age, gender, status of being a national athlete and period of performing taekwondo. According to the sources/surveys are used in the research, it's determined that there is a significant relationship in a positive way between psychological resilience and procative personality. Conclusion: It was concluded that psychological resilience and proactive personality structure positively affect success. In addition, it was determined that proactive personality structure has a significant positive predictive power on psychological resilience. Keywords: Taekwondo, Psychological Resilience, Personality, Proactive Personality, Sports Success