There has been intense body of literature on team cohesion and its relationship with different variables. However, the relationship between team cohesion and use of mental imagery on soccer players has drawn less attention in the literature. Although team cohesion and use of mental imagery have been seen critical for successful psychological performance for athletes; these two concepts have generally been studied separately in most of the studies. Therefore, purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between team cohesion and use of mental imagery in a group of Turkish soccer players. Group Environment Questionnaire (GEO, Carron, Widmeyer, & Brawley, 1985) and Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ, Hall, Mark, Paivio, & Hausenblas, 1998) were administered to a sample of 199 Turkish male soccer players. Mean age of participants and their sporting year were 25.62 (SD=2.44) and 6.78 (SD=2.67) respectively. Descriptive statistics was used for the GEO & SIQ subscales of the participants. Pearson product moment correlations and multiple regression analysis were used to assesscorrelations among subscales of GEQ namely; individual attractions to the group as task, individual attractions to the group as social, group integration as task, and group integration as social and SIQ namely; cognitive specific, cognitive general, motivation specific, motivation general-arousal, and motivation general-mastery. Results revealed that means of individual attractions to group-task, individual attractions to group-social, group integration-task, and group integration were 23.05 (SD=5.9), 22.97 (SD=4.71), 22.82 (SD=6.77), and 20.26 (SD=5.58), respectively. Moreover, the means of cognitive specific, cognitive general, motivation specific, motivation general-arousal and motivation general-mastery subscales of SIQ were 49.35 (SD=8.95), 28.11 (SD=6.66), 18.72 (SD=5.54) and 18.06 (SD=3.13) respectively. Results of correlation analysis revealed no significant relationships among team cohesion and use of mental imaginary subscales.
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