Psychological Resilience and its relation with self-handicapping for gifted athletes teenagers

Abdul Muti Muhammad Awad Khalif, Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jsre.2021.137150

Psychological Resilience and its relation with self-handicapping for gifted athletes teenagers

Document Type : Original Article

Author

ahmed Abdul Muti Muhammad Awad Khalif

PhD Researcher in Educational Psychology - Girls College - Ain Shams University

10.21608/jsre.2021.137150

Abstract

Abstract:
The study aimed to examine the relationship between psychological resilience and Self-handicapping among gifted athletes adolescents, the study sample was chosen intentionally from ELsawahel sports school for boys, and Cleopatra Sports School for girls in Alexandria, where the two schools accept gifted athletes, and the number of the sample was (120) students Of the first and second grade students, (68) are male, and (52) are female, with an average age of (15,65), and the study used the psychological resilience scale (prepared by the researcher), and the self-handicapping scale prepared by Hayam Saber Shaheen (2015). The results of the study indicated a negative correlation between psychological resilience and self-handicapping, and the absence of differences between gifted athletes male and female on the scales of psychological resilience and self-handicapping.

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Educational psychology

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