How relationship between religious and life skills with athlete's performance in volleyball

Abstract

Purpose. This study aims to investigate the relationship between religious and life skills with the performance of athletes in volleyball. Material and methods. This study adopted a correlational type of research. The participants involved in this study were athletes from volleyball at Singaperbangsa University, Indonesia (n=45). The instrument used to measure religion was the Religious Faith Questionnaire, while Life Skills Scale for Sport was used to measure life skills. The measurement of athletes’ performance level covered skills, volleyball skills test, physical fitness test and psychological tests. All statistical tests were analyzed through IBM SPSS. First, conducting normality test. The second step of statistical descriptive testing was X±S. Third, assessing the relationship between religion and life skills with performance using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient analysis. Results. First, there was a correlation between positive religious and performance (p<0.05), but negative religious did not have a significant correlation (p>0.05) towards performance. Second, life skills had a significant correlation with performance (p<0.05). Conclusions. Thus, we emphasized that to possess a good level of performance was related to the level of positive religion and life skills of athletes. This research contributes as information to coaches/lecturers, athletes and stakeholders in volleyball about the importance of fostering and integrating religious and life skills among athletes, so that they will have good performance to take part in professional sports in the future.