فصلنامه مطالعات روان شناسی ورزشی
پیاپی 45 (پاییز 1402)

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between the performance of children in motor coordination skills and their ability in cognitive and affective empathy. The participants contained 45 students aged 7-9 years from Tehran elementary schools. Movement Assessment Battery for Children-second edition (MABC-2) was used to asses motor coordination skills including manual dexterity, aiming, catching, and balance. Moreover, cognitive and affective empathy were evaluated employing Griffith Empathy Measure (GEM). Univariate and multiple linear regression revealed that manual dexterity and balance were positively and significantly correlated with affective and cognitive empathy explaining 7 and 11 percent of their variance, respectively. Moreover, manual dexterity was positively and significantly correlated with general score of empathy, while not controlling for the other variables. Monitoring motor coordination skills, fine motor skills in particular, seems necessary to prevent deficits in development of social skills such as empathy.

This study compares the effect of four weeks of specialized badminton training with blood flow obstruction on psychological characteristics and anxiety in skilled badminton players. In this quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design, elite male and female badminton players of East Azerbaijan province were selected and randomly divided into two groups of training with limited blood flow and training without restriction of blood flow and training program three sessions per week (four They did 60 minutes per session per week. Watson and Friend (1969) questionnaires of psychological readiness and social anxiety were examined in the pre-test. The results showed that performing badminton exercises with and without calorie restriction caused a difference in the total score of mental fitness of the subjects (p <0.05) but no difference was observed in the level of anxiety (p <0.05). Blood flow blocking training methods can create a new path in sports training and cause changes in the level of mental fitness of professional athletes.

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological effects of coach substitution in sports teams. The research method was qualitative which was done according to the grounded theory method and the apparent approach of Glaser. The statistical population of the study included experts aware of the subject of the research, which according to the purposeful selection of 15 of these people were identified as the research sample. Sampling was performed until theoretical saturation was reached. The collection tool of the present study is a semi-structured interview. In this research, open, axial and selective coding was performed in three sections. Maxqda software was used to analyze the data of the present study. The results showed that 30 initial codes were extracted in the coding process and categorized appropriately in the open coding section. The results also showed that the psychological effects of coach substitution in sports teams were identified in two categories, negative and positive. Therefore, it is suggested that sports teams in the process of coaching, to use the opinions of athletes to some extent to be able to control the negative effects created during the replacement.

 The aim of this study was to Investigating the relationship between resilience and psychological well-being of individual athletes with the mediating role of perceived stress. The statistical population of this study consisted of female athletes in Taekwondo and Karate at the championship level and at the level of national teams and national titles in the youth and adolescents. The sample size was 594 and the sampling method was stratified random. Data collection tools included Reef Psychological Welfare Questionnaire (2002), Cohen Perceived Stress Questionnaire (1983) and Connor-Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire. Structural equations were used to analyze the data using PLS software. The results of this study showed that there was a significant positive relationship between resilience and perceived stress with psychological well-being and also positive relationship between perceived stress and resilience. According to these findings, coaches and athletes need to pay more attention to the role of resilience in various aspects of athletes' personality in promoting mental health and athletic performance.

This study was conducted with the purpose of identifying The Causes of Hatred of Sports and Overtraining in Students. The purpose of the research was applied and the research method was qualitative. Theoretical saturation was achieved with 21 experts in a purposeful judgment and using in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The data was collected using an exploratory approach through the identification process and its analysis using the qualitative software MAXQDA. In the current research, there are 107 indicators in the form of 11 concepts (physical, psychological, educational-cognitive elements, individual experiences, informational-knowledge, transpersonal, teachers' professional weakness, security-safety, beliefs, support and economic-scientific) and 4 categories (intrapersonal, extrapersonal, environmental-physical and structural-organizational factors were identified. The current research emphasizes on the factors of the intra-personal, extra-personal, environmental-physical and structural-organizational levels in preventing students from hating and Overtraining sports. In this context, attention should be paid to factors such as the implementation of the sports fields that students like in schools, making the sports fields attractive in schools, increasing the hours of physical education in schools, providing sports spaces and sufficient facilities to schools, preparing programs on radio and television in order to familiarize students with knowledge. Students with the benefits of sports, reducing the rent of gyms, showing successful sports people who did not interfere with their studies, identifying the sports talent of students by parents and coaches, using experienced and tested teachers, and holding counseling sessions for sports coaches and parents. In order to prevent students from hating and practicing sports, it is suggested.

Life skills can be considered as a set of abilities that provide the ground for adaptation and positive and useful behavior. Therefore, due to the importance of addressing an important issue such as life skills in sports, the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the coaching life skills questionnaire in order to standardize this tool in the country. The present study is one of the applied researches and tool development which was field-based in terms of data collection and non-experimental in terms of controlling variables. For this purpose, 370 sports coaches in Tehran were randomly selected (available) and completed a questionnaire. After the translation-re-translation technique and confirmation of the face validity of the questionnaire by three experts, the initial review of the questionnaire was performed to eliminate minor problems. Confirmatory factor analysis based on structural equation model, internal consistency of the questionnaire, Bernbach's alpha coefficient and correlation coefficient using test-retest were used to determine the validity of the factor structure of the questionnaire. The results showed that the coaching life skills questionnaire in sports was approved. The questionnaire also had the indicators of absolute fitness, internal consistency and acceptable stability, which indicated good validity and reliability. The results showed that the selected references for measuring the components of coaching life skills in sports have the necessary validity and can well assess the life skills of coaching in sports..

One of the most common and practical psychological interventions in the field of managing emotional states is mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based intervention on anger rumination, competitive anxiety, emotion dysregulation and sports performance in bodybuilding sportsman. The study was semi-experimental research that implemented in the form of a multiple baseline single-case design. The statistical population included all the athletes who went to the bodybuilding sport clubs in the city of Selseleh in Lorestan province in 2021. Among them 10 sportsmen who met the inclusion criteria were selected using convenience sampling method. The subjects participated individually in a 8 sessions of mindfulness and acceptance-based program. Data were interpreted using the visual inspection, reliable change index (RCI), non-overlapping data indices (PND, PAND, PEM), recovery rate index, and Cohen's D effect size. The results showed that mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based intervention has led to a reduction in anger rumination, competitive anxiety, emotional dysregulation and an increase in sports performance in athletes. Findings of the present study show that mindfulness-acceptance-commitment-based interventions could be effective in improving the cognitive-emotional functions and sports performance of athletes, and its application along with physical exercises can improve their sports performance.

Purpose of the present paper was to investigate the impact of national games on team cohesion and its mediating role on the inefficiency indicators of collision and non-collision athletes.

Methods & Materials: 

75 people of contact athletes and 114 people of noncontact athletes were participated in the study. Brunel's mood questionnaire and Carron group environment (GEQ) scale for assessing group cohesion in two dimension of obligation cohesion and social cohesion were used. In order to analyze the data, one-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA test and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used at the P≤0.05 level.

Results showed a significant difference in tension, game ability, and confusion subscale among collision and non-collision athletes. Also, antecedent and experience in national teams were the most important factors on team cohesion.

results suggests that besides recognizing efficient and inefficient behaviors, training use of negative moods could be applied by sport psychologist at exercise programs.

The purpose of the research: 

This research was conducted with the aim of developing a model of inertia management in the Ministry of Sports and Youth with an emphasis on psychological factors.

The method of this research was a combination of qualitative and quantitative. The statistical population in the qualitative part was 15 people from the managers and experts of human resources in the Ministry of Sports and Youth and in the quantitative part, including all the managers and employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, it was 901 people, according to the table of Karjesi and Morgan, the number of 269 people using The cluster random sampling method was chosen. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire containing 33 inertial management indicators. Data were analyzed through structural equations and using SPSS22 and PLS3 software.

The results showed that 33 indicators in the form of 5 components have an effect on the inertia management of the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the research model had a perfect fit. Also, based on the results, experience inertia, practical inertia, insight inertia, psychological inertia and learning inertia were the most important components affecting inertia management.

It can be said that by using psychologists who are experts in increasing the motivation of employees, motivational drivers to create change and the self-confidence of managers to create change helped the inertia management of the Ministry of Sports and Youth.

The aim of the current research was to investigate the structural relationships of quality of life, passion for sports and psychological well-being in the employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. The present research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of the research was all the official and contractual employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth in 1402, of which 173 people were selected by available sampling. Psychological well-being questionnaires of Rief (1989), Marsh et al.'s passion for sports (2013) and Walton's quality of work life (1973) were used to collect data. Data analysis was done with the help of SPSS and AMOS statistical software, Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation test. The model fitting results show that the quality of work life model with psychological well-being has a good fit with the mediating role of Passion to physical activity (P<0.05). Also, the direct effects of psychological well-being (β = 0.47, p < 0.01) and Passion to physical activity (β = 0.31, p < 0.01) on the quality of work life are significant. Based on the results, it can be expected that the quality of working life in sports employees will improve with the increase of psychological well-being and consistent Passion to physical activity. Based on this, it is necessary to pay attention to these variables in organizational productivity.