Self-efficacy and psychological skill usage among professional sports players in Goa

Pages: 357-359
Vijay Viegas (AbbéFaria P. G. Department of Psychology, St. Xaviers College, Mapusa, Goa)
Shanmukh V. Kamble (Department of P.G. Studies and Research in Psychology, Karnatak University, Dharwad)

The present study titled ‘Self-efficacy and Psychological Skill Usage among Professional Sports players in Goa’ was intended to study the relationship betweenself-efficacy and psychological skill usage among professional sports players and to understand whether the age of professional sports players influences their self-efficacy and psychological skill usage. The objectives of the study were; to investigate whether self-efficacy of professional sport players is significantly and positively related to their psychological skill usage;to investigate whether there exists significant difference in self-efficacyand psychological skill usage with regard to age. The study was conducted on a sample of 237 professional sports players (between the agegroup of 15-45 years). The tools used for data collection comprised of the Mindfulness-based Self-Efficacy Scale – Revised (MSES-R) by Bruno A. Cayoun., (2012)and Test of Performance Stratégies (TOPS) by Thomas et al. (1999). The tools used for statistical analysis were Karl Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and ANOVA (One Way Analysis of Variance).The findings of the study revealed significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and psychological skill usage, significant age differences were also found in the levels of self-efficacy and psychological skill usage among professional sports players.