THE EFFECTS OF FOOTBALL COACHES' STAI ANXIETY LEVEL ON PROBLEM SOLVING SKILL

This study aim of the examination relationship between anxiety and problem solving skills who participated to the study coaches of the football. 95 volunteers football coach participated to the study where were Bursa and Canakkale provinence. To obtain trait anxiety state data of tranis the 20-item developed by Beck Traiy Anxiety State Inventory(TASI) were used. Problem Solving Skills (PSS) data, developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and to the Turkish version adopted by Sahin and Heppner (1993) 35-item inventory problem solving skills are used. The data analyses in SPSS 20.00, Descriptive Statistic, T-test, One-Way Anova test and Correlation (r statistic) were used. The coaches who participated in the study TASI average x = 1.96 ± 0.27, PSS average x = 2.92 ± 0.63. When the time to coaching the coaches who participated in the study, 33 coaches of 1-9 years, 40 coaches of 10-19 years and 22 coaches 20 years and over. The coaches of the TASI and PSS mean scores did not change significantly compared to the working time in the profession and marital status variables, according to the education level was found to be significantly changed. The coaches between TASI and PSS average score were found to be positive and significantly correlation.