Abstract

Abstract
Background and objectives: Mental skills are important aspects of successful sport performance in all sport competitions. This study was designed to assess and compare the mental skills of men players' positions in premier league volleyball team in year 2015.
Materials and methods: This cross sectional research includes 69 Iran men's premier league volleyball team in year 2015 who participated in the premier league competitions in year 2015. Mental skills as well as demographic data of the players was assessed by OMSAT-3 questioner and a personal data form. SPSS: PC 16.0 software and one-way ANOVA was employed to analyze the data.
Results: The result of analysis indicated that there was no significant differences between the main components of fundamental (p=0.21), psychosomatic (p=0.12), and cognitive skills (p=0.584) of different position of the volleyball players. However, there was a significant difference between the sub skills of reaction to stress (0.002) and fear control (0.020) of different positions of volleyball players. Outside hitters and opposite hitter were significantly weaker than the setters, libero and Middle Blocker in fear control (p

Key words: Mental skills, Premier league, Volleyball.