The psychological skill characteristics of Indonesian volleyball players reviewed based on position

Abstract

This study aims to know: (1) the psychological skill characteristics of male and female Indonesian volleyball players; (2) the psychological skill characteristics of Indonesian volleyball players reviewed based on position. The type of this study was descriptive quantitative research, using a survey method with a research design: a retrospective causal-comparative. The population in this study was Indonesian volleyball players attending the 18 th Asian Games 2018 event in Indonesia numbering 28 Indonesian players, consisting of 14 male and 14 female players, with an average age of 25 years old for males and 20 years old for females. Further, data collection used the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport (PSIS) questionnaire. Meanwhile, data analysis technique used parametric inferential statistics by using anova one way for position difference, with a significance level of 0.05. Results show that: (1) the psychological skill characteristics of male and female Indonesian volleyball players attending the 2018 Asian Games XVIII event as whole are in the high and medium category, with each average value of 142.92 for males and 126,9 \xa0for females; (2) there is no significance difference in the psychological skill characteristics of Indonesian volleyball players reviewed based on position, with the Sig. value 0.930> 0.05;