From all the differents fields that psychology has, sports
psychology is the one I want to develop most. I always been fascinated of the
mental aspects in sports, I can relate some experiencies: for example when I watch a football game and
the best team loose, (for example the match beetween Universidad Catolica and
Sao Paulo, played yesterday) for silly reasons, it always make wonder what went
wrong?.
The sports psychology studies phenomenoms like concentration,
attention, motivation and mental health in sports and see how this factors
impacts the performance of the athletes.
A sports Psychologyst is not restricted only to the
high perfomance level of sports, it includes all the levels from olympic level
to amateur level. Sports psychology has been studying the psychological aspects
in every level of sports performance.
sports psychology has been studying the social aspects involved in sports, that
is a reason why the sports psychologist can be part of proyects to expand
physics activities and make the people stay motivated (motivation always has
been a phenomenon studied in pshychology). For example a classmate is doing her
practice in a Sename center (Sename is the national service for minors, and Works
with children in social risk) and she is ussing
sports to emotional educate the childrens. Other classmates done their
practices in football clubs like Colo-Colo and Universidad de Chile.
Sports
psychologyst is a very demanding career, because you need a lot of
studies, it requieres a doctor or master
degree. Also it needs a great understanding of sports, especially the ones that you are going to work in.
I have never investigated about it, but it seems interesting.
ResponderEliminarI love sport psychology, when I was in competitions (long time ago) I discovered the relevance of Sport Psychology :)
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