SOME MENTAL VARIABLES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR AND MOTIVATION OF ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR SENIOR PLAYERS OF SABER

The practice of fencing, whether during training or competition exposes the player to a lot of those circumstances and situations of different psychological attitudes, which are often accompanied by excitement and emotion, especially in the course of the competition, as sporting competitions linked with the changed emotional situations that characterized by its intensity to change attitudes of victory and defeat from moment to the other within the athletic competition and thus athletic competition requires that the player should have some mental features to be enable to control his behavior and his actions as the athlete achievement requires the need for a swordsman to use his maximum physical , skilled , tactical, mental abilities to reach to the best possible level. The research problem lies in that most coaches overlook the psychological aspect and focus on the physical and skilled aspects of the game to reach to the best levels on despite scientific studies that benefit and constructed psychological aspects The study aimed to identify some of the mental variables of the senior saber players. And to identify the relationship between some mental variables and the competitive behavior of the senior players of saber. The most important results are the presence of significant correlation between some mental variables and the competitive behavior of the senior players of saber. And the presence of a significant correlation between some mental variables and motivation of athletic achievement for senior players of saber