INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF 8 WEEKS OF SELF-TALK AND IMAGING STUDIES ON ATTENTION PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The aim of this research is to present the degree of developing the attention skills of  professional women football players’ eight-week self talk and imagery studies.The research is an experimental study.The research was conducted in 2023,Şanlıurfa,and the group of this research was chosen by the women players who compete in TFF 3.league,comitted to the Ministry of youth and sports.The research is made of total 30 sportmans,15 of whom are control group,and 15 of whom areexperimental  group.An 8 -week intellectual skill program was applied.The Bourdon attention test was applied to determine the attention degrees before and after the education.According to the results acquired by the research,the degree of attention grabbing of the experiment group  football players who took the self talk and imagination skills improvement program, has significantly increased when compared to the footballers who didnt take the program.