CONTROLLING EMOTIONS DURING SPORTS EVENTS

INTRODUCTION

Sport is an emotional experience for many athletes and Fans. Researchers found the increased causes of Athletes and Fans to reacts negatively physically and mentally in a manner that may negatively affect their performance abilities and the games.

BACKGROUND

1.1 Control: Control will probably improve training and games: a.) attitude, b.) body language, and c.) work ethic.

1.2 Concentration: This is the mental quality to focus on the task in hand. If the athletes lack concentrations then their athletic abilities shall not be effectively or efficiently applied to the task.

1.3 Confidence: Confidence results from the comparison an athlete makes among the goal and their ability.

1.4 Commitment: Sports performance depends on the athlete being fully committed to numerous goals. In competition with these goals the athlete shall have many aspects of life to manage.

COMMON CAUSES
2.1. Perfectionism: when your team does not perform perfectly you loses composure because you become frustrated and then focus too much on your errors or lost instead of the tasks needed to perform well.

2.2.. Irrational Beliefs: Irrational beliefs cause you to stay stuck in old, ineffective patterns of behavior. “Thinking that my team mates may blame me or everyone may hate me.”

2.3. Fear of Failure: Fear is based on your intense need to win and causes you to worry too much about losing or failing. This may led to you playing defensive and tentative instead of composed and play freely. It becomes easier to get frustrated and lose emotional control, that may not help you stay composed after failure.

2.4 Emotional threat also causes anxiety and all sorts of the negative physical symptoms.

METHODS
3.1 With these practices, Athletes can become more aware of their emotions and able to use psychological strategies to manage their performances.

3.2 By developing a relatively stable warm-up routine, including mobility work, stretching and increasing deep muscle temperature, and uncertainty can be reduced and the athlete’s attention directed to appropriate cues, such as quality technique and body awareness.

CONCLUSION

The aim of this paper has been to use cognitive, motivational and relational theory as a basic to outline the basic techniques that may be useful for emotional control. These Strategies may be used for emotional control given the role that a Team Psychologist may play in controlling emotion itself and contribute to the performances of the Team.