Self-talk (positive and negative) and its relationship to Athletic Fears withen the advanced players of Mosul City Center club’s

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to try to uncover the effect of positive and negative psychological skill for self-talk among the advanced club players of Mosul city center, and the researchers seek that the results of this study be of help to the players and those in charge of the training process in order to develop positive psychological skills for self-talk, as well as to reveal the relationship between Self-talk and mathematical concerns of athletes. The researchers used the descriptive method in the survey method, due to its suitability to the nature of the research. The research sample included the advanced players in the Mosul city center clubs who were deliberately selected in order to achieve the objectives of the research. Their number reached (130) players distributed among the sports clubs, and they represent 30% of the research community.

The objective of search

- To identify the degree of self-talk of the advanced players in the clubs of Mosul city centre.

- Learn about the relationship between self-talk and sports concerns of the advanced players in Mosul City Centre clubs.

Conclusions

- The advanced players in Mosul City Centre clubs generally enjoy a positive degree of positive self-talk through the results of the research.

- The existence of a negative inverse relationship between the degree of self-talk and sports concerns of the advanced players in Mosul City Centre clubs.

Recommendations

• Conducting more scientific studies on self-talk because of the positive and negative effects of this variable on the performance of players in general, whether on combat games or intellectual games of an intellectual nature.
• Designing an advisory program based on positive self-talk to reduce the degree of sports concerns among the advanced players in the Mosul City Centre clubs.