Developing a Scale of Personal Toughness among Players of the National Centers for Taking Care of Sports Talent in Basketball

Abstract

The importance of this research lies on the level of personal toughness and the performance of players on the field of national centers for the care of sports talent. Sports games in general and basketball in particular are characterized by the need for levels of training on the various personal toughness required by this game, accompanied by excitement and enthusiasm. In order to advance this game to achieve victory, the need arose to research the details of this. The game and identifying the determinants of the impact on the game’s results, the level of achievement in it, and the requirements for success The problem of the research is represented by the questions posed by the researcher, which is: Does personal toughness have an impact on the performance of players at the National Center for Sports Talent Care in Baghdad, which can express to us the efficiency of the players’ performance? The objectives of the research lie in identifying the level of personal toughness possessed by players of national basketball centers. The research also seeks to codify the measure of personal toughness and seeks to search for basic concepts that reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the human personality and its influential role on the psychological and material reality of the individual in general. The researcher used the descriptive approach using the survey studies method, due to its suitability to the nature of the research problem. The research sample included players from the National Centers for Sports Talent Care at the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Baghdad. The researcher reached several conclusions, including that the Personal Hardness Scale is suitable for what it was prepared for measuring personal hardness among players from the National Centers for Sports Talent in Baghdad, he enjoys the conditions for accepting measuring instruments. Players of the National Centers for the Care of Sports Talent in Basketball have a clear level of personal toughness, and one of the most important recommendations is the necessity of working to empower coaches and develop their abilities to measure personal toughness in basketball. The Ministry of Youth and Sports must pay attention to the availability of a specialist or psychological counselor in basketball talent care centers, and attention must be paid to supporting researchers in the fields of basketball sports academies.