Investigation of the Mental Endurance Levels of the Athletes Participating in the Table Tennis Championship of Universities in Turkey

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental endurance of the athletes who participated in the table tennis championship inter Universities in Turkey. To investigate the mental endurance of the athletes who participated in the study, the mental endurance rubric whose validity and reliability work has been done by Erdoğan (2016) was used. Also, some questions including some personal data of the subjects were also included in the inventory. For statistical tests, The Saphiro-Wilks test was performed to determine if the data had a normal distribution. Due to data not having a normal range, non-parametric tests such as Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were applied. According to the results of the analysis, it has been seen that there is no meaningful difference between the mental endurance score of the athletes based on categories such as; age, sex, playing sports year, and playing sports under a license. Results showed that the male athletes (57,79±6,676) have a higher average of mental endurance compared to female athletes (46,82±6,525), the athletes with higher playing sports year, 13-15 years, (50,87±6,329)compared to lower playing sports years, 7-9 years, (57,13±7,731) have a lower average of mental endurance, athletes who play in the unileage (56,18±7,795) have a higher average of mental endurance compared to the athletes who play in 1.,2.,3. Leagues (51,48±5,714) and athletes who play in other leagues or athletes who don't play in any leagues ((50,98±4,415) and athletes aged 21-23 (54,88±7,142) has a higher average of mental endurance compared to ages 18-20 (53,38±6,260), ages 24-26 (53,06±6,752).