スポーツ選手としての心理的成熟理論についての実証的研究

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A study was conducted to investigate the process of personality change in athletes based on the model of athlete mental maturity proposed by Sugiura (1996). A scale for measuring mental maturity as an athlete (MMAA) was constructed, and 480 college athletes were investigated for the relationship between their experience of crisis and their MMAA score. The results revealed that MMAA had five factors: "clear meaning of sports activity", "self understanding", "independent achievement orientation", "mental stability", and "physiological controllability". The first three factors were positively related to exercise motivation and the will to continue sports activity, and were also improved by experience of crisis if the athletes changed their way of thinking. The other two factors were negatively related to competitive anxiety, and were not improved by experience of crisis. These results suggest that athletes improve their motivational aspect through experience of crisis, but do not improve their competitive anxiety. In the future, it will be necessary to clarify the factors that can change the "mental stability" and "physiological controllability" of athletes.
社団法人日本体育学会の論文
2001-07-10