Touching the Void Movie Content Analysis in the Context of Psychological Skill Factors in Sports

The purpose of this research is to examine the contents of touching the void movie in the context of psychological skill factors in sports. Document analysis method was used in qualitative analysis methods. In the analysis process, all the dialogs in Touching the Void movie were transcribed. The transcribed dialogs were watched separately by the first and second writers at the same time with the image, and the psychological skills strategies that two climbers used against hardships were coded. Afterwards, codes were examined, and basically existing psychological skills were developed. The way Joe and Simon used their psychological skills before, during, and after the hardships they had experienced and their decisions according to these skills were analyzed. As a result, it is thought that this study can give an idea about how the psychological skills factors in sports can be applied in practice and removed from the theoretical framework