There has been a long standing interest about whether an individual’s psychologicalstate or levels of different psychological components have any relationship with theindividual’s physical components. Whether the psychological components influencethe physical behaviors of an individual. If we see it from sports perspective, fullyunderstanding this relationship will unlock techniques to achieve greater heights interms of physical performance by training the mental components.Such concepts arealso evident in the work of Gould et al (2002) who stated that : sporting success washighly influenced by mental toughness as a psychological characteristic. But overall itremains unclear whether mental toughness specifically influence judo performance.The purpose of this study is to analyse whether there is an influential relationshipbetween level of mental toughness and performance in judo, the former influencing thelatter. As such the research statement of this study is : Analytical study on therelationship ofmentaltoughnessand performance injudo.

Drawing on the statement that psychological components may influence the physicalperformance of an athlete I hypothesized that there is a significant influence of mentaltoughness on performance in judo. This is coupled with the fact that as judo is acombatgamemental toughnesswillsurelyhavesomeroleortheother.

The outcomes of this study would help the judokas as well as the coaches to knowtheirstrengthsandweaknessesintermsofpsychologicalattributesandworkonthemaccordingly by developing training regimes including both physical and mentalsessions.

Gould et al. in (2002) Olympic medal winners' psychological development wasexamined. Research revealed that Olympic champions' sporting success was highlyinfluencedby mentaltoughnessasapsychologicalcharacteristic.

Golby& Sheared (2004) investigated the relationship between mental toughness andsports performance of rugby players. They found a significant and positive associationbetween mentaltoughnessandsportsperformance.

The graph represents the data of the  study. (Fig: graphical representation of the data)

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Orange=SJFTindex andBlue=Mentaltoughnessscore.

It is observed that with a rise in mental toughness score there is a rise in the SJFTindex andviceversa

After applying correlation function on the data a strong correlation of 0.83 was found.The findings of the study revealed that the judokas with high level of mental toughnesspossessed high level of judo performance and vice versa. A major reason behind thiscan be the age factor because, it was observed that as the age increased the judokasdisplayed low performance levels as compared to the younger judokas and also theirresponsesobligedthesameintheAlanHearymentaltoughness questionnaire.

After consulting the results it is evident that my hypothesis was correct stating thatmentaltoughnesslevelsinfluencetheperformanceinjudo.

This study has potential limitations and possible improvements which could be made.Oneofwhichistheunderstandingandinterpretingofthestatementsofthequestionnaireandthesubject’sattentivenesswhilefillingupthesame.AnotherlimitationconcernsthevariationsinDailyroutine,age,individualdifferences,environmentalfactorsofthesubjects.Thereforetheresearchershouldtakegoodcareorthe same.

The research findings have demonstratedthat the higher the mental toughness scorethe higher was the SJFT index of the individual hence