THE COMPARISON OF IMAGERY LEVELS ACCORD？NG TO SPORT AGE IN FEMALE BASKETBALL PLAYERS

The aim of this study is to compare female athletes' forms of imagery according to sport age. In total 52 female basketballers, 1-8 years 13, 9-13 years 25, 14 and above 14, have participated in the study. In the study Sport Imagery Questionnaire developed by Hall and his companions (1988) was used as the data collection tool. The validity of the scale for Turkish was conducted by Vurgun and his companions (2012). In Motivational special imagery subdimension 1-8 year over 14 year athletes are found to be higher than 9-13 year athletes. In Cognitive general imagery, motivational general alertness, motivational general mastership subdimensions athletes who are and above 14 years are found to be higher than 9-13 year athletes. According to the obtained results it has been detected that athletes who are 14 year and above use imagery forms more. Doing physical exercise for years can be regarded to have an impact on this result. In accordance with this study it is suggested that athletes who begin sport must be made to perform imagery studies