Judo exercises increase emotional expression, self-control and psychological resilience

Mihraç Köroğlu¹Coşkun Yılmaz^2*Çetin Tan³Baha Engin Çelikel³Cemalettin Budak⁴Korhan Kavuran⁵Yunus Emre Susuz⁶Yaşar Barut⁷Tülay CEYLAN⁸Fikret Soyer⁹F. Neşe Şahin¹⁰

• ¹Batman University, Batman, Batman, Türkiye
• ²Gümüşhane University, Gümüşhane, Türkiye
• ³Firat University, Elazığ, Türkiye
• ⁴Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Erzincan, Türkiye
• ⁵Bitlis Eren University, Bitlis, Türkiye
• ⁶Natıonal Defense University, Ankara, Türkiye
• ⁷Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Samsun, Türkiye
• ⁸Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Türkiye
• ⁹Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University, Bishkek, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
• ¹⁰Ankara University, Ankara, Türkiye

The extant research on judo sports has principally concentrated on the physiological effects of training. Conversely, there has been limited attention paid to studies on psychological resilience, self-control and emotional expression levels. The present study examined the effects of Judo exercises on psychological resilience, self-control and emotional expression levels in healthy male subjects.The present study comprised 50 healthy, sedentary male subjects. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups: one group participated in judo training (JT) and the other group served as the control group (CON). The sample sizes for the JT and CON groups were both 25. The JT group underwent judo training, while the CON group maintained their usual lifestyle. The Brief Psychological Resilience Scale, the Multidimensional Brief Self-Control Scale, and the Berkeley Emotion Expression Scale were administered prior to and following the six-week training period.The study demonstrated that a six-week judo training regimen exerted a significant effect on the psychological resilience score (e.s. = 1.047, p < 0.001), while no such effect was observed in the Control group (e.s. = 0.0091, p = 0.751). In the context of self-control levels, an effect was observed on the Initiation sub-dimension (e.s. = 1, 739, p < 0.001), yet no effect was found on the Inhibition dimension (e.s. = 0.052, p = 0.892). In the control group, a significant decrease was identified in the Initiation sub-dimension (e.s. = 0, 785, p = 0.001) and Inhibition sub-dimension (e.s. = 1, 861, p < 0.001). The findings indicate that impulse power (e.s. = 0.395) and concealment (e.s. = 0.428) exerted a negligible influence on the emotional expression sub-dimensions. Conversely, psychological resilience (e.s. = 0.886) demonstrated a substantial impact.The judo exercises demonstrated a favorable impact on psychological resilience, self-control, and emotional expression levels in healthy male subjects. The findings of this study may offer significant insights into the impact of judo exercises on psychological resilience, self-control, and emotion expression levels. These findings could serve as a guide for the development of future interventions and program design in the domain of sport psychology.