Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the irrational beliefs of football players. Methods: In this study, 152 football players were selected as research participants, and football players’ irrational beliefs were derived by open-ended questionnaire and judging whether to adopt irrational beliefs based on previous studies. As a result of the study, 1,064 raw data were collected as the beliefs of football players, and 100 football player beliefs were derived by accumulating frequencies according to the commonality and similarity of meanings. 100 football player beliefs, only beliefs that satisfy all of the criteria, such as whether it is goal-setting rigidity, illogicality and unreality, and the catastrophizing were derived as irrational beliefs. Results: The irrational beliefs of football players are ‘never get injured’, ‘never make a mistake’, ‘never be red carded’, ‘never lose, ‘never lose goal’ ‘must make a goal’, ‘never lose even one goal’, ‘never be meltdown’. Conclusion: It is expected that this study will be used to expand the understanding of beliefs as affect the performance of football players and hope actively discuss the correction of beliefs.

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