Physical Education Students’ Psychological Skills in Facing Sport Competition

DOI

10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

competition; performance; psychological skills; psychological skills training; psychological intervention

Abstract

Psychological skills have important roles in the performance of sport. Unfortunately, research related to psychological skills of Physical Education college students, who often interact with sport competition, is scarce. Therefore, this study was aimed at exploring the Physical Education college students’ psychological skills of sport in facing competition. The study was conducted under exploratory research design employing the Test of Performance Strategies-2 (TOPS-2) as the instrument for collecting data related to nine psychological skills of sport. The data were taken from twenty eight Physical Education college students and analyzed through descriptive data analysis. The data showed that self-talk, imagery, and goal setting skills had the highest score. Meanwhile, controlling emotion and negative thinking became the two psychological skills with the lowest score. The result also discovered that female participants obtained higher average score than male participants. However, male participants obtained higher scores in controlling emotion and negative thinking. Due to the result of the study, it is expected that psychological skills training matched the students’ psychological skill profile can be applied to develop students’ better enhancement in sport.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wulandari Putri
AU  - Mesa Rahmi Stephani
PY  - 2019/09
DA  - 2019/09
TI  - Physical Education Students’ Psychological Skills in Facing Sport Competition
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 113
EP  - 116
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.32
DO  - 10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.32
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