Sports Psychology

Sports psychology plays important role in physical education and sports. It attends to the mental health and well-being of athletes, as well as assisting them with reaching their maximum potential in their athletic careers. In fact qualified sports psychologists have a doctorate in psychology, a license to practice psychology, and postdoctoral training on aiding athletes with sports performance and well-being. Sports psychology plays a very important role in controlling the emotions of sportspersons during practice as well as competition. Generally, these emotions may bring spontaneous changes in the behavior of sportspersons. These are anger, disgust, gear, negative self-thinking and feeling of ownership, etc. If these emotions are not controlled well in time, the performance may be decreased. Sports psychology plays a vital role at such juncture. It helps in balancing the arousal of emotions which further improves the performance.