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Sports Psychology

Course Description: This course introduces sports psychology, covering its history, nature, and fields. It also addresses athletic personality and the psychological factors influencing athletes' mental preparation as a cornerstone of comprehensive athlete development. The course clarifies communication skills between coaches (teachers) and athletes (students) to improve motor skill learning, enhance performance levels, reward positive behavior, and develop self-confidence and motivation, exploring their relationship with athletic performance. It examines the coach's (teacher's) role in guiding athletes' (students') emotions, including anxiety, stress, and burnout. The material also covers contemporary issues in sports psychology, psychological mobilization techniques, and assisting athletes in coping with training and life pressures.
Credits: 2
Objectives of the course :

The course aims to introduce the student to: the history, nature, and fields of sports psychology; the study of psychological factors influencing the mental preparation of athletes; communication skills between coach (teacher) and player (student); and the role of the coach (teacher) in managing athletes' (students') emotions such as anxiety, stress, and burnout. It also covers contemporary issues in sports psychology, methods of psychological mobilization, and assisting players (athletes) in coping with the pressures of training and life.

Course outputs :
  • The student explains the concept of sports psychology, its history, its essence, its fields, and the psychological factors influencing the mental training of athletes.
  • Discusses motivation and its relationship to sports performance: its definition - types - functions - development - factors affecting athlete motivation - methods of developing athlete motivation and emotions in sports: concept of emotions - characteristics of emotions - emotional experiences related to sports activity.
  • Explains the nature and concept of self-confidence in sports and strategies for developing it.
  • Apply knowledge related to psychological factors affecting athletes' mental preparation.
  • Plans and implements models for developing motivation in athletes.
  • Detects problems related to the psychology of intolerance, violence, and aggression in sports.
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  • Last updated: 2026-04-30

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