Sports and exercise psychology is an interdisciplinary field that studies how psychological factors influence performance and how participation in sports affects psychological development. Sports psychologists research topics like personality, youth sports, coaching, teams and evolutionary perspectives. They also use techniques such as arousal regulation, goal setting, imagery, pre-performance routines, and self-talk to help athletes improve performance. The document provides examples of how each of these areas and techniques are applied in sports and exercise psychology.

1. Effects of Psychology on
Sports & Exercise
Prepared by: Mohaiminul Momen
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2. What is Sports & Exercise
Psychology
 Sports Psychology: An interdisciplinary science that
draws on knowledge from many related fields
including biomechanics, psychology, kinesiology and
psychology. It involves the study of how psychological
factors affect performance and how participation in
sports and exercise affect psychological factors and
physical factors.
 Exercise Psychology: A practice of human body
which helps people to become more active, promising
and dauntless. It focuses much to the goal of health
and well being, rather than performance. It may use
as legitimate interventions for some psychological
disorders such as anxiety and depression.

3. 2 Main
Objectives
 To understand how
psychological factors
affects individual
performance
 To understand how
participation in sports
and exercise affects
one’s psychological
development, health
and well being.

4. What Sports and Exercise Psychologists
Do:
 Research Role
 Teaching Role
 Consulting Role
 Policy Making/ Advocating Role

5. Common Area of Study
 Personality
 Youth Sport
 Coaching
 Team Processes
 Evolutionary Prospective

6. Personality
 One common area of study within
sport psychology is the relationship
between personality and
performance.
 Basically focuses on specific
personality characteristics and how
they are related to performance
and other psychological variables.
 Factors: Self belief/ Confidence,
Self efficacy, Arousal, Motivation

7. Youth Sports
 It basically refers organized
sports programs for
children less than 18 years
old.
 Develop life skills like
emotional, mental,
behavioral, social skills and
resources development.

8. Coaching
 A coach is a person who
can influence the
athletes behavior and
performance.
 Two motivational
climate can be created
by the coach. Task
oriented and Ego
oriented.
 The relationship
between coach and
athlete affects the
performance.

9. Team Processes
 It refers a groups tendency to stick together
while pursuing its objective.
 Focuses on group level not at the individual
level.
 Two components. Social cohesion
(relationship between teammates) & Task
cohesion (they work together to achieve
goals)
 Leaders role also affecting team processes.

10. Evolutionary Prospective
 It influence the behavior of an athlete.
 Includes testosterone changes. If it
increases or decreases it affects the
dominant and competitive behavior.
 Prefer white color or black in chess
(color psychology)
 Left handed or Right handed.

11. Commonly used Techniques:
Five common techniques or skills that
sport or exercise psychologists teach
to athletes for improving their
performance:
 Arousal Regulation
 Goal Settings
 Imagery
 Preperformance Routines
 Self-talk

12. Arousal Regulation
 It refers to entering into and
maintaining an optimal level of
cognitive and psychological
activation in order to maximize
performance.
 This may include relaxation if one
becomes too anxious through
methods such as progressive
muscle relaxation, breathing
exercise and meditation.

13. Goal Setting
 A process of systematically
planning ways to achieve
specific accomplishments
within certain amount of time.
 Goals should be specific,
measurable, attainable,
realistic and timely.

14. Imagery
 Imagery can be defined as using multiple senses to create
or recreate experiences in one’s mind.
 Ability to create objects, persons, skills and situations
mentally while not actually being involved in these
situations.
 More than Visualization
 Involve all sense (see. Hear, smell, taste and feel)
 Mental and Physical blueprint for sports.

15. Imagery

16. Performance Routines
 It refers to the action
and behaviors athletes
use to prepare for a
game or performance.
 This includes pregame
routines, warm up
routines and actions an
athlete will regularly
do before the
performance.

17. Self-talk
 It refers to the thoughts and words athletes and
performers say to themselves, usually in minds.
 Self-talk used to as a process of getting direct attention
towards a particular thing in order to improve focus and
used alongside other techniques to facilitate their
effectiveness.

18. Reference
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