خلاصة:
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.
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A;1 Sofian Omar Fauzee, M;1 Sadeghi, H;1 Akbari, A2 1 Department of Sports Science, University Putra Malaysia 2 Department of Exercise Pysiology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Abstract Background: Self-talk can be described aswhat people say to themselves either obviously or non-obviously.
In psychological aspect in sport performance, many items such as goal setting, imagery, relaxation and self- talk play important roles in all kinds of situations like rest, training and competition (Burton and Raedeke, 2008.
Researchers have been conducted in various designs (experimental, intervention and single-subject designs) in several sports and tasks have supported the effectiveness of the self talk strategy in facilitating learning and enhancing task performance (De Moor, Beem, Stubbe, Boomsma, and De Geus,2006).
Although the focus was placed on the importance of theory within the behavioral sciences by Gucciardi, Gordon, andDimmock (2009) and development of the theories with relevance to the study of self-talk was mentioned by Gammage, et al.
Therefore, to overcome of that problem the intent of this study was the investigation is to report how, when, where and why players should use self-talk during and after training, competition and rest.
Objective of the study The main objective of this investigation is to report how, when, where and why players should use self-talk during and after training, competition, injury and rest.
As it was shown in this study, soccer player used more positive self-talk during competition and more negative during injury.