Résumé:
The purpose of this study was to know the level of self-efficacy, to investigate
self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and state anxiety of football players in different playing
position and to reach of finding the relationship between self-efficacy, achievement
motivation, and state anxiety of football players. The sample consisted of male amateur
football players (N =61) between the age 16 and 19 years. General self-efficacy scale-
Schwarzer (GSES), task and ego orientation in sport questionnaire (TEOSQ), Competitive
State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) were used to collection data. Descriptive statistics,
kruskal-wallis Test and spearman’s correlation analysis were used to calculate data. The
results indicated that there was high self-efficacy among football players. No statistically
significant difference in football players’ self-efficacies, achievement motivations and state
anxieties according to their playing position. And there was positive and significant correlation
between self-efficacy and task orientation and between self-efficacy and self-confidence.
