Sports psychological skill training levels of team and individual athletes in the specific context of football and athletics - Tizazu Mossie - Bog

Sports Psychology is one of the new upcoming sciences at the present time. This practice focuses on training athletes to use their mental capacities along with their physical talent to reach what is known as peak performance. Athletes those are without having good sports psychological skills and having only physical talent means nothing at all. Psychological Skills are the mental qualities or abilities which are determinant for the purpose of enhancing performance, increasing enjoyment, or achieving greater sport and physical activity self-satisfaction in the competitive sports. PST program helps the athletes to have tremendous abilities to psych themselves up for competition to manage their stress; to concentrate intensely and to set challenging but realistic goals, to have the ability to visualize themselves being successful and then doing what they visualized as a part of training and to excel in the world of competitive sports (Murphy & Tammen, 1998). A great deal of research effort has concentrated on attempting to predict performance from psychological variables. Through evidence it has been proposed that sport psychologists can develop athletes' performances by enhancing their psychological skills sideways. Some of the most important mental skills are competition anxiety, motivation, goal setting, relaxation, visualization, self-talk , self-awareness and control, concentration and confidence (Robert S. Weinberg and Daniel Gould, 2003). Among these PSTs, we treated only competition anxiety and sport motivations.