Psychology of Sport

Sports psychology - an area of psychology that studies the laws governing the formation and manifestation of a variety of psychological mechanisms in sport.

Objectives of Sport Psychology

Speaking about the problems that are solved sports psychology, we can not say about the central figure of the trend in psychology - a sports psychologist. It is a sports psychologist working with athletes, allowing him to achieve the following objectives:

Improving the overall efficiency of the training process by developing the right level of motivation, chetkoyorientatsiey for a specific purpose, and generate the necessary motor skills.
Creating the necessary psychological conditions for better psychological endurance, the high strength, agility, and for the development of specialized types of perception.
Competent psychological training athletes to compete
mental regulation

Personality formation athlete to better interact with the coach and other athletes on the team.
Increase the athlete will power in situations where the figure is either on insufficient for successful sports performances level or the rate is too high and there is a risk that the athlete can "burn out" before the start of competition.
Online help the athlete. Involves working with the athlete in the most tense moments for him - from lifting-launch excitement and work with stress to help in case of unsuccessful performances and related due to this experience.
In addition, in a separate direction modern sports psychology research highlights, the issue of forming a competent team, interpersonal relations in the team, ways and methods of increasing the value-orientation of unity, with the fans, as well as issues of intergroup relations.

The History of the
Sports psychology is a fairly young branch of psychology. Mention of it first appeared in the papers of the founder of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin at the beginning of XX century. Year as the birth of this trend in psychology can be considered in 1913, when the initiative was organized by the IOC congress on exactly the psychology of sport. In 1965 in Rome, organized by the International Society of Sport Psychology (abbreviated - ESSP), which was an indication of the international recognition of sport psychology as an independent subject of psychology. ISPP in 1970 began to publish the "International Journal of Sports Psychology." In 1967, there was the North American Society of Sport Psychology, and in 1969 - the European association of sport psychology. Then, in the years similar organizations were established in Japan, England, Germany, France, Australia, Brazil and many other countries. The really active sport psychology, as a separate area of ​​psychology, began to develop from the early 60-ies of XX century. In the beginning the focus was on the so-called differential psychology, that is, the study of individual differences in athletes performance. Moreover, some features and the ability to act in the athlete under stress and ways to increase the effectiveness of training. A little later, the front of the studied sports psychology issues has improved markedly.Programs were developed, taking into account not only the specific individual abilities of athletes, but also a particular sport. It used a common, educational, social and developmental psychology (individual work with the athlete, collective training, etc.). It was the development of programs appropriate training facilities to improve mental and physical fitness of athletes, their ethical, emotional, volitional, and collectivist preparedness. Special attention was paid to the motivation of athletes, not only in the period of their participation in the competition, but also during training. Studied in some detail the ways and means of forming specialized perceptions athletes - sense of distance, timing, speed fluctuations of a moving object, "feeling of the ball", "sense of water," the anticipation of events (intuition, anticipation). Considerable attention was paid to the development of ways of the imagination, improve observation, tactical, and strategic thinking, quality of interaction in groups