The relationship between emotion regulation and psychological skills of Turkish national muay thai athletes

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between emotion regulation and psychological skills of Turkish National Muay Thai athletes. A total of 338 athletes, 101 of whom were female and 237 of whom were male, participated in the study conducted with the general survey method. The data required for the study were collected using a questionnaire form consisting of three parts: demographic information, emotion regulation scale and psychological skills assessment scale. SPSS 23.0 package program was used to analyze the data obtained. Skewness-kurtosis values were taken into consideration for the normal distribution of the data and it was determined that the data showed normal distribution. In this context, independent sample T test and Oneway anova analysis were applied and Post-hoc (LSD) analysis was performed to determine the difference between groups. In addition, Pearson correlation analysis was performed for the relationship between emotion regulation and psychological skills of athletes. In the statistical analysis and interpretations of the data, the significance level was taken as 0.05. It was found that the performance of Muay Thai National athletes in exhibiting emotion regulation and psychological skills differed significantly according to their sport age, and emotion regulation performance was better in the group between 20-25 years of age according to the calendar age (p<0.05). It was seen that the athletes with A national status performed better than both B and C national athletes in terms of psychological skills (p<0,05). According to the gender variable, it was determined that the ability to use psychological skills was in favor of men in general (p<0.05). Based on the findings of the study, it can be said that the performance in displaying psychological skills is effective in advancing to the highest level within the nationality status, and the ability to regulate emotions shows a better performance in the 20-25 age group. It is thought that the inclusion of studies to improve the performance of emotion regulation and psychological skills in training planning, including the talent selection process, will make a significant contribution to achieving success.