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Psychological coping skills of student futsal players

With the aim of determining their psychological coping skills, 85 futsal players from the Croatian UniSport (Academic) First League of Futsal have been measured using the ACSI-28 questionnaire. Low levels of reliability have been determined on few questionnaire scales, but all given data has been analyzed because this kind of study on a population of student futsal players hadn’t been conducted in Croatia before. Average results from scales of psychological coping skills of futsal players vary between 3.06 on ‘freedom from worry’ scale up to medium high 3.81 on confidence/motivation scale. Groups of players of different chronological age and various futsal playing experience differ in psychological skill significance: a group of the youngest players has the lowest expression of ‘freedom from worry’ characteristic (F=3.97 ; p=0.02), while a group of the oldest players has a significantly lower expression of ‘coping with adversity’ characteristic (F=3.45 ; p=0.04) ; a group of players with a playing experience only at the lowest competitive rank has a significantly lower expression of concentration characteristics (F=3.38 ; p=0.04) and ‘peaking under pressure’ (F=3.14 ; p=0.05) than the others ; a group of players with the longest playing experience in competitive futsal has a significantly higher expression of ‘goal- setting/mental preparation’ characteristic (F=4.34 ; p=0.02) then other players. Given results indicate the need for conducting further research of psychological characteristics of futsal players.

futsal, psychological skills, psychological state, competitive experience

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