Pre-competition mental energy and performance relationships among physically disabled table tennis players

PeerJ

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Wen-Chuan Chuang¹  Frank J.H. Lu¹  Diane L. Gill³  Bin-Bin Fang¹ 

[1] Graduate Institute of Sport Coaching Science, Chinese Culture University;General Education Center, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism;Department of Kinesiology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro;School of Physical Education, Quanzhou Normal University

关键词: Physically-disabled athletes;    Optimal state of mind;    Competitive sports;    Psychology of sport excellence;    Psychological skills training;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.13294

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Energy is essential to human daily functioning and performance. However, the association of mental energy with athletes’ performance has rarely been examined. We attempted to examine the pre-competition mental energy–performance relationships by two studies. Study 1 administered Athletic Mental Energy Scale (AMES, Lu et al., 2018) to nine elite physically-disabled table tennis players one day before competition in 5 international tournaments. Then, we collected their subjective performance after each competition. In Study 2, we sampled 77 National-level physically-disabled table tennis players and examined the pre-competition mental energy-performance relationship as the procedure in Study 1. Results from Study 1 provided initial findings of how pre-competition mental energy is associated with performance and portrayed in elite physically-disabled table tennis players. Results from Study 2 further confirmed the pre-competition mental energy- performance relationships. We suggested future studies to examine the mental energy–performance relationships in physically-disabled and abled athletes and different sports.

【 授权许可】

CC BY