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
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
Sports psychology is a new branch of the sport science that in recent years has been of interest to athletes and sports coaches, dramatically
In Inferential statistics, using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (K-S), the normality of the data was analyzed, two variable Pearson correlation coefficient test were used for calculating relationship between knowledge and experience with educators' attitudes towards sport psychology and independent t-test was used to compare variables between the two groups
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. With the advancement of the science of sport psychology, the mental skills are very important in the implementation of sporty performance and whereas previously was emphasized the importance of physical preparation Today the heroes are more and more emphasis on psychological preparation. Their experiences indicate that when they compete with par heroes physically on big fields the mental preparation will determine to win the victory of one of the parties ) Bartholomew et al, 2011). Sports commentators assume that exercise can help young players educate power, self-esteem, how to walk, communicate with others and experience to learn difficult objectives but today we know that this capability do not spontaneously reached maximum growth whereas the athletes should be trained and practicing the psychological skills (Ingledew and Markland 2008)
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