 Study on the Influence of Psychological Intervention on Mood State and Coping Styles for High-Level Athletes: A Case Study for Wushu Sport in ChinaHua Li SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 3, 2158244020932519 Abstract: Psychological intervention has a positive impact on the competitive psychological ability and performance of athletes, while there are few studies on this subject. To improve the psychological ability of athletes’ mood and coping styles and promote the smooth progress of the competition, a single-subject experimental design model is used carry out psychological intervention on four high-level athletes for 8 months. According to the characteristics of Wushu routines, the psychological measurement and social validity evaluation are combined to explore the effect of psychological intervention. The results show that the mood state of four athletes improved obviously with the same trend. The coping styles showed a positive upward trend after psychological intervention. The results of three athletes also improved in the City Games. In addition, the results of “social validation†obtained from the coaches and athletes support the effectiveness of the intervention. Psychological intervention can effectively improve the bad mood and negative coping style of Wushu routine athletes so as to improve the competition of athletes. Keywords: psychological intervention; mood state; coping styles; single-subject design; athlete (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:10:y:2020:i:3:p:2158244020932519 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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