The Relationship with Self Esteem Between Assertiveness Levels of Sub-Elite In-Door Soccer Players

The aim of this study was investigated the relationship with self esteem between assertiveness levels of sub-elite in-door soccer players. For this aim, 18–28 aged, 86 male and 91 female athletes studying 7 universities which joined in-door soccer championship of Turkish University Sport Federation was participated to study volunteerly. Participants were performed socio- demographic data formi Rathus Assertiveness Schedule and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(version 20.0);. Spearman Correlation parameter calculated in order to comment the relationship with data, Multiple regretion analysis was performed for the predictive power of self-esteem for assertiveness levels of participants. According to analysis, a positive relationship was found between self esteem and assertivenes levels and it was found that self-esteem levels predictived assertiveness levels substantially. As a result of this study, high self-eseteemed athletes could transfer their feelings to others and could increase their assertiveness levels. It was known that highly self-esteemed athletes could increase their performance. Therefore, we could say that necessary studies about athletes’ gaining assertiveness behaviors, should take part of primary studies of trainers.