Yılmaz, Duygu Sevinç; Seçer, Emrah

This study aims to examine the impact of anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty on life satisfaction among individuals who continued engaging in active sports during the COVID-19 period. This study, which utilized the correlational survey model from quantitative research methods, included 269 individuals (91 women and 178 men) who continued active sports at a private gym. Data were collected using a “Personal Information Form,” “State Anxiety Scale”, “Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale,” and “Life Satisfaction Scale.” For data analysis, after normality tests, parametric tests including the independent samples t-test, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis were conducted. According to the study, there were no significant differences in state anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and life satisfaction based on gender, sports branch, or information reliability. However, it was found that individuals lacking sufficient information experienced higher levels of anxiety. The study identified a positive relationship between state anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty, whereas negative significant relationships were observed between state anxiety and life satisfaction, and between intolerance of uncertainty and life satisfaction. The findings indicate that state anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty are significant predictors of life satisfaction. It was determined that state anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty significantly predict life satisfaction and explain a substantial portion, approximately 20.5%, of the variance in life satisfaction.

Ekizoğlu, Özlem; Acet, Mehmet; Toros, Can

The aim of this research is to reveal whether professional volleyball players’ mental endurance in sports, visualization in sports, talking to themselves, and strategies for coping with stress in sports differ according to their gender, age, and marital status. In addition, the aim was also to examine the effects of mental endurance in sports, imagery in sports. and self-talk on the strategy of coping with stress in sports. A total of 56 professional volleyball athletes, 33 women and 23 men living in Kütahya, participated in the study. Data were collected with a personal information form and a total of four scales: mental endurance in sports, visualization in sports, self-talk, and strategies for coping with stress in sports inventory. Findings were obtained by independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and multiple regression analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21.0 software (IBM Corp.; Armonk, NY, USA). As a result, the gender, age, and marital status of the participants did not make a significant difference on their mental endurance and imagination; It was found that those who were single had higher self-talk and stress coping strategy scores than those who were married. In addition, as the participants’ ages increase, their stress coping strategy scores decrease and their stress coping strategies in sports. It has been found that it affects mental endurance in sports by 15%, imagination in sports by 38%, and self-talk by 43%.