self-handicapping and self-esteem levels of judokas

The present study was carried out to investigate self-handicapping and self-esteem levels of judokas. the categorical and demographic information of the subjects (n=149) who voluntarily participated were collected. self-handicapping scale (shs) adapted into turkish by akin (2012) and self-esteem scale (ses) adapted into turkish by tukus (2010) were used as online data collection tools. 149 judokas (62 male and 87 female) participated voluntarily. for statistical analysis, independent samples t-test, one-way anova, mann-whitney u, kruskal-wallis h and spearman’s rho were conducted where appropriate. the level of significance was set as p<.05. as a result, statistically significant differences in the self-handicapping scores of judokas found in the gender, marital status, educational status, income, national athlete status and national athlete variables (p<.05). there are statistically significant differences in self-esteem scores in the gender, age, educational status, marital status, national athlete status, international success status, international ranking and training duration variables (p<.05). a moderate and negative correlation (p<.05) was found between self-handicapping and self-esteem. in conclusion, coaches, club managers and other interested parties should consider their athletes in this context, considering that self-handicapping and self-esteem scores are important indicators in sportive performance as it is very important for long-term performance and healthy sports life. it is recommended to record and periodically follow the self-handicapping and self-esteem levels of the athletes.