Abstract
The purpose of this study was study the attitude, knowledge and experience of coaches of Karate Federation Islamic Republic of Iran toward sport psychology counseling. For this purpose, 150 official coaches (75 women and 75 men) of karate Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran who had grade 1 and 2 of certified coach and had participated in the senior Championships of Iran, championship adolescents of young people and under 21 years, national team qualifiers and teams participating in premier League, had participated in this research as individual. In order to collect the required information the researcher made and the research questionnaire Sports coaches on sports psychology was used. Research results by using a two variable Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is meaningful relationship between experience and attitude to sport psychology consulting and as well as between knowledge and attitudes toward sport psychology consulting that is (p=0.001,p=0.001 respectively). also results of research using independent t-tests showed that there is not meaningful relationship between male and female attitudes towards sport psychology consulting (p=0.207) while there is meaningful difference between adult and youth educators' attitudes towards sports psychology counseling (p=0.001). It seems that according to common concerns that exist between coaches and athletes perhaps existence sport psychology can be effective to athletes and coaches in reducing stress and achieve the desired result.
Highlights
Sports psychology is a new branch of the sport science that in recent years has been of interest to athletes and sports coaches, dramatically
These findings suggest that exposure to such positive data showing psychological services can help to improve attitudes towards sport psychology
Another finding showed that there is a significant relationship between karate instructor knowledge and attitudes toward sport psychology this means that coaches who had followed courses related to sport psychology had a more positive attitude towards sport psychology
Summary
Sports psychology is a new branch of the sport science that in recent years has been of interest to athletes and sports coaches, dramatically. Some researchers thought that no access to sport psychology services is the main reasons for non-compliance with the athletic trainers and sports psychologists (Liu et al, 2011, Rodney, 2010) Another factor that has been considered by researchers as a factor influencing the on level of cooperation instructional coaches and psychologists sports coach’s attitude towards sports psychology. Coach’s attitude towards sport psychology is very important because the decisions of coaches that is effective in the athletes benefiting from sport psychology services and mental exercises. The attitude and the knowledge and experience of the coaches about sports psychology is important that despite realize the importance of these services to the success of athletes and sports teams, sports psychology is in our country still confined to internal debate of mainly university classrooms and in practice so will not be considered. Knowledge and experience of coaches to these services can guide us toward reaching to sufficient strategies in order to optimal use of these services
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