The effect of Group Reality Therapy on Emotion Regulation and Self-control in Judo athletes

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of reality therapy on Judo athletes’ emotion regulation and self-control. It was quasi-experimental one and the design of the study was pre-test post-test. For this purpose, 50 Judo athletes ranging 18-25 years were selected by complete enumeration sampling method and were randomly assigned to experimental group (n=25) and control group (n=25). To elicit data, Emotion Regulation of Garnefski et al (2001) and Emotion-control of Tangney et al (2004) questionnaires were exploited. The results of repeated measures multivariate analysis of covariance (MANOVA) revealed that experimental group outperformed significantly than control group in terms of emotion regulation and self-control. The findings of the study verified the efficacy of reality therapy. Regarding the results, it seems that training reality therapy concepts can enhance emotion regulation and self-control to achieve sports success.