Modelling the causal relationship of Psychological Immunity and Self-differentiation with confrontation efficiency in football players

Abstract

The research aims to identify the degree of psychological immunity and self-differentiation and efficiency of confrontation among football players, identify the correlation between psychological immunity and self-differentiation and the efficiency of confrontation among football players, and build a model of causal relationship to identify the direct and indirect effects of psychological immunity and self-differentiation efficiently confrontation among football players. The descriptive approach was used with survey methods and correlational relationships. The research community included football players for second-division clubs in Babylon Governorate for the 2022-2023 sports season (110) players representing clubs (Al-Jawhara, Al-Mahawil, Al-Mashrou'a, Babylon Gardens, Al-Musayyib). The research sample was randomly selected by (102) players. The causal immunity scale consisted of (39) items representing seven areas, and the measure of self-differentiation (35) items representing four areas. The scale of confrontation efficiency (24) items represented four areas, and the alternatives to the answer were triple. The causal relationships model was built for the direct effects of the areas of (psychological immunity), which represent the external independent variables in (self-differentiation and confrontation efficiency) as internal dependent variables. The indirect effects of the areas of (psychological immunity) in (confrontation efficiency) from the path (self-differentiation) as an intermediate and internal variable, The statistical package (SPSS) and the (AMOS) program were used to process the data. The research came out with a set of conclusions, including the emergence of a strong correlation with statistical significance between psychological immunity and self-differentiation and the efficiency of confrontation among football players, and the validity of the causal model of course analysis was proven in a statement and clarify the precedence of variables in terms of being independent, intermediate and dependent. In addition, the research came out with a set of recommendations, including the need to work hard to achieve psychological immunity for players because of its great role in self-differentiation and efficiency of confrontation for players, attention to providing psychological programs during the psychological preparation of players to increase psychological immunity and develop self-differentiation and efficiency of confrontation.