Implementing psychological skills training program in high school athletics
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ABSTRACT:
Professional athletes, Olympic athletes, and collegiate athletes have benefited greatly from the employment of sports psychologists to enhance athletic performance and to build self-confidence. Athletic budgets, on the high school level, do not permit adequate funds to employ the services of sports psychologists, consequently high school athletes have been excluded from psychological skills training (PST) programs. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether or not PST skills have been defined so that an instructor on the secondary school level could successfully implement a PST program with positive results. A PST program of imagery and goal setting was researched to determine if self-confidence and sport skills were improved. Twenty-seven male subjects, on the secondary level, and members of either football or basketball programs participated in the study. It was found that imagery and goal setting did benefit the enhancement of sport skills and build self-confidence. The study indicates that the skill of imagery was learned in a relatively short period (7-10 days) of time as did the skill of goal setting. Sport skills were enhanced and self-confidence did improve. However, this research indicates that self-confidence took a much longer time to improve as compared to the other positive results of this study.
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