Sports Psychology

Author: Ji Liu
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book is a professional teaching material for secondary school teachers advancing to higher normal education (undergraduate/graduate starting from junior college level), organized and compiled by the Department of Normal Education of the Ministry of Education. Secondary school teachers differ from students in that they possess extensive practical experience and mastery of various methods and techniques to enhance students' health. However, they often lack the ability to explain and resolve teaching and training issues using psychological knowledge and methods, which is precisely the focus this book addresses. The main content of the book includes: students' sports motivation and its stimulation, students' willpower and its cultivation, physical education teaching and students' mental health, anxiety in sports learning, goal-setting training, control of psychological energy, and social psychology in physical education classrooms. This book breaks away from the traditional approach of solely pursuing a complete system, logical coherence between chapters, and purely theoretical instruction. Instead, it adopts a thematic format (each chapter can serve as a standalone topic), combined with specific case studies. While ensuring continuity with undergraduate teaching content, it introduces new perspectives and research findings in the field of sports psychology, enhancing the book's readability and practicality. This makes the book suitable not only as teaching material for teachers advancing to higher education but also as a reference for school sports professionals in teaching and research.