SPORT PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES
Year:2019 | Volume:8 | Issue:29|Papers Count:14

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of education and intervention on the transfer of the brain to improve the quality and readiness of the shooting. Semi-experimental research project. A sample of 26 male students of Semnan University was divided into two groups of control and experiment. Intervention in the transfer of attention was made through the selection of nine homework assignments and several layers of research in this area. The data collection tool included an infantry gun and a scoreboard. Data analysis was performed by multivariate covariance analysis. The results showed that intervention in transferring attention caused the experimental group to be more accurate in shooting (shooting beams, closer to the target), speed of shooting in shooting, shooting in shooting conditions and shooting in better conditions of siebel movement Gain control from the control group. However, the two groups did not have any significant difference in shooting accuracy in camouflage conditions. Therefore, in sports and military education environments, assignments, especially homework and physical exercises, which play a role in executing brain functions, can be used to improve the quality and quantity of beam sizes and other similar functions.

The purpose of this study was to comparison the dark triad traits of personality, cognitive decision making and mental toughness in natural, supplement and steroid bodybuilders. The method of this research is causal-comparative descriptive. The statistical population of the study consisted of all natural, supplement and steroid bodybuilders in Rasht (2019) among whom 150 individuals (50 natural bodybuilders, 50 supplement bodybuilders and 50 steroidal bodybuilders) were selected and available on a Dark Triad Traits of Personality Scale Jonsson and Webster, Iowa Gambling Task Scale, and Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire Sheard et al. Multivariate analysis of variance and LSD test were used to analyze the data. Results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that there was a significant difference between dark triad traits of Personality, cognitive decision making, and mental toughness in the three groups. Also, the results of the LSD follow-up test showed that steroid bodybuilders had more dark triad traits of personality and loss of body traits compared to natural and supplement bodybuilders and had less mental toughness and won. Based on the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that abuse of steroidal drugs has detrimental effects on personality and psychological characteristics of athletes. So, coaches need to pay more attention to these issues.

Considering the importance of trainers’ effectiveness in athletes’ success and guidance, noting the influential and related psychological factors in this trend can be applicable. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze the causal relations of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence with sport trainers’ effectiveness considering intermediate role of self-efficacy. 300 sport trainers through multi stage cluster sampling are chosen randomly, and completed the emotional-social intelligence Bar-On (2000), The comprehensive spiritual intelligence Am ram Dryer (2007), the self-efficacy Sheerer (1982), and the trainers’ effectiveness of Felitz et al (1999) questionnaire. Having taken into consideration the findings of this study, self-efficacy can be reminded as a partial medium role in conceptual model of study. In addition emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence are significant in trainers’ effectiveness. So, having emotional and spiritual intelligence to achieve ideal effectiveness is necessary and as two important variable can have a significant role in anticipation of trainers’ self-efficacy and effectiveness.

The preset study aimed to examine the prediction of perfectionism and psychological needs regarding exercise addiction in female athlete students. The present research is descriptive-correlative and applied in terms of its purpose. The standard multidimensional perfectionism questionnaires, the basic psychological needs of athletes, and the practice addiction checklist of Terry & et al. were used. Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression tests were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that there is a significant positive correlation between addictive perfectionism and athletic female students. Also, there was a significant positive correlation between Self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism with addiction to exercise. There was no significant relationship between psychological needs and all three components of autonomy, competence and addiction to sport. The results of regression analysis also indicated that perfectionism is a significant predictor of sports addiction.

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the activities in social media and social anxiety, loneliness, and shyness of national team athletes. The statistical population of the study consisted of all athletes of national teams in Iran in different sports fields, who had personal accounts in the Instagram application. Due to hard and difficult access to these athletes, at least 200 athletes of the national team were selected as the study sample. The results of this study showed that, there is a significant relationship between the athletes' activity in Instagram application with social anxiety, loneliness, and shyness. Therefore, observation of the activities of the athletes in social media can explain some of their psychological problems.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different methods of practice a pre-performance routine on mental representation and performance levels of volleyball overhand float-serve. For this purpose, 80 female (age= 19± 2. 2) were randomly divided into eight groups including Physical, Mental, Observational, and different combination of these conditions. Participants, according to their grouping, practiced the intended task for one week. One week later, a retention test was performed. Performance accuracy and structure of mental representation of participants were measured as dependent variables. Results showed that in the accuracy measure, group which utilized all three kinds of performance had the higher accuracy and the imagery and observation groups had the lowest accuracy. These results were interpreted according to the dynamic system view and the importance of online feedback in the process of motor learning.

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effects of three methods massage, yoga selected Training and combination of massage and yoga on the self-esteem of depressed elderly women. Based on the research criteria, sixteen available samples selected and simple randomly divided into three experimental and one control groups. The samples completed the Beck Depression Inventory and Rosenberg Self-Esteem before the intervention, two months after the intervention and one month after the end of the intervention. Each experimental group received one of interventions of the massage, selected yoga practice, and the combination of massage and yoga for eight weeks per week three sessions and each session 40 minutes. The data were analyzed by factor analysis of variance 4* 3. The results showed that all three methods led to improvement in the self-esteem but the combination of massage and yoga had the greatest effect on improving the self-esteem of depressed elderly women.

The purpose of this study was to determine the Relationship between the feeling of belonging to the school and the academic achievement of athlete students with the role of mediocrity of academic excellence. The method research was applied and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study was all students who participated in the thirty sixth student national sport competitions in the city of Qom. Data was gathered by field and using a questionnaire. The results showed that the feeling of belonging to the school does not improve the academic achievement of athletic students. The results showed that academic stiffness has a mediating role between the feeling of belonging to the school and the academic achievement of athletes' students. Regarding the results, it was found that academic achievement of athlete students' needs to improve academic excellence. Therefore, fitting the students' sport environment to improve their academic hardiness can facilitate academic achievement.

The present study was conducted to provide a model of the role of moral tension in the professional athletes' burnout. The statistical population of the present study included a total of 185 professional athletes in Golestan province (Iran) who were members of national teams in different categories. The present research was carried out based on the research model of Al-Shebil and Zahlahah-Saleh (2018). The results of this study showed that, moral tension has a significant positive effect on the athlete's burnout. Given this, it can be stated that, the moral tension caused by professional problems in the professional sports environment causes professional athletes to be burnout, highlighting the importance of considering the moral tension as an important issue in the clubs and sports teams. Since, lack of management of moral tension would cause more burnout among the athletes.

The purpose of research was to study the anticipation of emotional regulation and psychological well-being on the athletic performance performance of professional and semi-professional athletes. The present research was a descriptive of causal-comparative type. The statistical population consisted of professional skill level with a experience of 10 years (n=50) and a semi-professional skill level 5 years experience (n=50) were randomly selected. Data collection tools consisted of three questionnaires: Charbonneau exercise performance questionnaire (2001), emotional cognitive regulation questionnaire (Garnowski et al., 2001) and Reif's psychological well-being questionnaire (1989). To test the hypotheses, multiple regression analysis was used. The findings showed that sporting performance of professional and semi-professional athletes with predictive cognitive psychological regulation and psychological well-being is predictable. The effect of cognitive emotion regulation and psychological well being on the performance of athletes' professional and semi-professional sport is not significant.

The present study was conducted to develop a model of the role of spiritual health in the quality of work life and psychological adjustment of injured professional athletes. The method of this research was applied and descriptive-correlation in terms of purpose and data collection, respectively. The statistical population of the study included all the professional athletes referred to Golestan Medical School in 2019. The mean age of the participants was equal to 25. 8 ± 2. 8 years old. Data collection was done using a questionnaire. The questionnaire used in this study had 68 questions measuring three variables including mental health (12 questions), psychological adjustment (29 questions), and quality of working life (27 questions). The results of the study showed that, spiritual health has a significant effect on the psychological adjustment and quality of work life of professional injured athletes. Therefore, it is suggested to help the professional athletes in developing their self-knowledge and abilities, while improving the spiritual health, as well as enhancing the psychological adjustment and quality of work life.

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of cognitive approaches in coping with the stress of football Referees that was done by descriptive-correlational method. The the statistical society of the study consist of all 2900 active referees (members) of Iran Football Referees’ Academy telegram channel, that 251 people of them were randomly chosen as samples. Referees’ stress sources and cognitive approaches’ questionnaire was used for accessing to the research’ s purposes, and structural equations model was used to state the relationship between the research’ s variables. The findings showed that cognitive approach has a negative and meaningful effect on referees’ stress. Also cognitive approach (positive approach, behavoral and negative approach) had the most negative effect on football referees’ stress by order. Accordingly, the authorities should present their own strategies and plans for controlling, reducing and managing the stress of football referees, by focusing on cognitive approaches’ issues and content, and its dimensions in the forms of workshops, Justification classes and training courses, to increase the level of football referees' readiness to cope with stress.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social activities and group sports with the rate of students’ addiction to cyberspace. The research method used was correlation. The statistical population consisted of the students at Azarbijan Shahid Madani University in the academic year 2017-2018. Using randomized cluster sampling, 344 students were selected as the sample. To collect the data, three questionnaires were used to measure social activities, group sports and addiction to cyberspace. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis. The findings showed that there was a meaningful relationship between social activities and the rate of addiction to cyberspace as well as groups of sports with the rate of addiction to cybernetics. Also, the results of multivariable regression analysis indicated that social activities and group sports had a significant role in explaining the variance in the rate of students’ addiction to cyberspace.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and self-compassion in elite Taekwondo athletes. Cross-sectional correlational design was employed in this study. The statistical population consisted of elite taekwondo athletes participating in the super League competition and National team. One hundred and sixty taekwondo athletes (80 male and 80 female) were selected via purposive sampling method. They completed two scales of perfectionism and self-compassion. The data were analyzed by Pearson correlation, multiple regression by inward method, and ANOVA tests. The results indicated that perfectionistic strivings (positive perfectionism) was positively associated with self-compassion, whereas perfectionistic concerns (negative perfectionism) was negatively associated with self-compassion. In addition, the results showed that two dimensions of perfectionism predict self-compassion variance. Furthermore, the data showed that the male group significantly have high positive perfectionism and use more self-compassion strategies than female group. According to results of this study, it seems that perfectionism has an effective role in self-compassion strategies of elite taekwondo athletes and improving these strategies can be useful to conduct interventions in order to balance negative impacts and facilitate positive impacts.