A Description of Self-talk_ Narrative Self-talk to Examine the Value of Self-talk In Soccer Player

Researchers in Sport Science Quarterly

مقاله 2، دوره 2، شماره 1، خرداد 2011، صفحه 7-17   

نویسندگان

M.A Daftari¹؛ M Sofian Omar Fauzee¹؛ H Sadeghi¹؛ A Akbari²

¹Department of Sports Science, University Putra Malaysia

²Department of Exercise Pysiology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

Background: Self-talk can be described as what people say to themselves either obviously or non-obviously. Self-talk has been known as someone talks inside or quietly. As a matter of fact, self-talk is self-communication which can occur in several situations. Objective: Together the athlete’s perceptions of the Self-Talk intervention and its relationship to their performance to obtain information about self-talks as clear as possible. Method: One veteran Iranian national soccer player candidate voluntary (age= 26) attended in three session’s open-ended interviews. He also has had 10 years of playing experience. The content of interview transcripts was then hierarchically analyzed to identify the themes. Result: The finding revealed that self-talk in positive patterns was mostly motivational and in negative patterns was motivational and cognitive as well. Conclusion: Interviews and narrow observations of outstanding athletes showed precious knowledge about psychological factors specifically in self- talk since it is considered as sort of leader for unpredictable event in and off the sport field.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Psychological mental skills؛ self-talk؛ and soccer players