The Relationship between the Self efficacy and Internal and External Imagery Ability with table tennis athlete's performance

One of the important aspects of sports is psychology topics that for researchers, educators and athletes, has an important and specific gravity. Without understanding the psychological characteristics of individuals, it is impossible to reach success. The Purpose of this research is to evaluate the Relationship between the Self Efficacy and Internal and External Imagery ability with Performance in elite female table tennis players under the age of 21.The research population included all women table tennis players less than 21 years who participated in the youth championship, which was conducted in fall of2006 in Gorgan, a total of 57 people from 14 provinces. The sample was selected by 32 of the players found their way into the final round of the individual competition to determine first place up to the thirty-second, Thus the sampling was non-random targeted sampling methods and accessible. The validity of Self-efficacy questionnaire, were reviewed and approved by educators and experts in this field, and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha, 95%. The validity of mental imagery questionnaire was confirmed by physical education teachers, and its reliability was 82%. The descriptive statistics were used to calculate central tendency and dispersion, and the inferential statistics, Spearman correlation method was used to determine the relationship between athletic performance, with all other variables in the (p=0.05) level, and the use of software SPSS12.Measuring instruments included two questionnaires, namely, Bandera’s physical selfefficacy questionnaire (PSE),Gold vneenzberg’s, Internal and External Imagery Ability questionnaire, And determining the first place, to the thirty-second, to evaluate the performance of athletes. This study shows that there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy sense and implementation and also between External Imagery Ability and implementation and no significant correlation between External Imagery and implementation and self-efficacy sense, is to estimate the result of the match. So it can be stated that Mental skills, are the main components and proven consistently perform at the highest levels of competition.