A Study on Meditation of Thai Athletes in Thailand University Games
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jsst.2023.5คำสำคัญ:
Meditation/ individual athletes/ Team athletesบทคัดย่อ
Introduction: This research aims to translate the Thai version of the Athlete Meditation Questionnaire (AMQT), derived from the Athlete Mindfulness Questionnaire by Zhang, Chung and to examine medication-based concentration meditation in university athletes, both team and individual. The study was conducted using the 3-meditation factors: present-moment attention, awareness, and acceptance.
Method: The Black translation method was implemented to obtain the Thai version of the AMQT after academic permission accepted from the AMQT developers, whereby the same contexts of the original English version were preserved. The Cronbach's alpha reliability was employed to determine confidence the questionnaire data collected from 30 individual athletes and teams. Such subjects are Thai athletes who participated in the University Games of Thailand (with a total athlete of 155), consisting of 99 males (63.9%) and 56 females (36.1%) with averaged age 20.9 ± 1.8. This is along with a number of team and individual athlete as 108 (69.7 %) and 47 (30.3 %t), respectively. In this study, collected data were analyzed by mean, standard deviations between groups and tested for reliability using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient.
Result: The analysis of Cronbach's alpha coefficients obtained from the questionnaire yielded 0.885, indicating that the proposed Thai version of the questionnaire was proven to be consistent. This was evidently based on the Present-moment attention, awareness value which are greater than 0.7, corresponding to a value of 0.773 and 0.803, respectively. Part of acceptance was less than 0.7 (0.684), this is because the distribution of the question number 16 yielded only 0.219. After the question 16 was not included, the confidence value increased to 7.18. For the team and individual athletes, the differences between the 3 items were greater than 0.05, which means that the hypothesis was not rejected.
Conclusion: The AMQT had a good confidence level and found that the differences between the groups of team and individual did not disprove the hypothesis. This concluded that the team athletes and individual athletes have the corresponding level of meditation-based concentration.
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