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Application of the multidimensional inventory of sport excellence on the samples of young top female handball and volleyball players

Numerous psychological instruments are developed with a purpose assess psychological characteristics of athletes. In this study, recently preliminary validated battery of questionnaires, named Multidimensional Inventory of Sport Excellence (MUSI) is applied. From entire MUSI, several subscales are applied, measuring following psychological characteristics: mental energy, cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, attention focusing, awareness about attention, wide internal/ external attention, awareness about attention during performance, internal speech and narrow external focus. The main goals of the study are: to determine the differences between top female handball and volleyball players in abovementioned psychological characteristics (1) ; to determine the correlations between these psychological characteristics, separately for handball and volleyball players (2). Sample of 91 female athletes, 35 handball and 56 volleyball players (mean age for handball 16.49±3.71 and 14.04±2.74 for volleyball) were included in the study. They are recruited from sport clubs in Rijeka: “Rijeka” (volleyball) and “Zamet” (handball). Data were collected from March to June 2014 in Rijeka, during the trainings in sports clubs. The results revealed that only one statistically significant difference is found between female handball and volleyball players in the aspects of MUSI (in somatic anxiety, higher means female handball players had higher means than volleyball players did). Approximately half of the correlations between different psychological characteristics were low to moderate statistically significant (and mostly positively) correlated, with just a bit more significant correlations found in volleyball players. The results provide the information mostly about the similarities in examined psychological characteristics in these two sports, as well as the similar profiles in the relationships between these characteristics.

coaching; diagnosis; female athletes; sports excellence

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