ATHLETES STATE ANXIETY LEVELS AND THEIR ABILITY TO DEAL WITH STRESS BEFORE THE COMPETITION IN SNOWBOARDING

This study aims to reveal the relationships between the state anxiety levels and stress coping skills of athletes before the competition in snowboarding and various variables. The study was conducted using the screening method, which is one of the quantitative research techniques. The data of our study consists of three sections: Demographic Information of Snowboarders, State Anxiety Inventory and Stress Coping Scale. The universe of this study consists of 158 snowboarders, 49 female and 109 male, in the age groups of U11, U13, U15, +15, out of 250 snowboarders licensed in the Turkish Ski Federation. As a result of determined that the state anxiety and stress coping levels of athletes differed according to their gender, and it was determined that the helpless approach sub-dimension of stress coping differed according to gender and that the helpless approach sub-dimension levels of men were higher than those of women. Another result that the optimistic approach sub-dimension of stress coping of athletes differed according to age. In the study, as a result of the difference analysis of the levels of state anxiety and coping with stress according to their weight, it was determined that the levels of self-confident approach to coping with stress differed according to their weight. It was determined that there was a positive and moderate relationship with the helpless approach sub-dimension levels of the state anxiety and coping with stress scale, and a positive and low-level relationship with the submissive approach sub-dimension levels of the state anxiety and coping with stress scale.