Abstract

HEVILLA-MERINO, A  and  CASTILLO RODRIGUEZ, A. Fluctuation of the psychological characteristics of sports performance on young soccer players. Basal state vs. precompetitive. CPD [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.3, pp.169-178.  Epub July 26, 2021. ISSN 1989-5879.

The competition in soccer supposes the athlete to face situations of maximum activation that, in a number of occasions, can cause changes in their psychological sports characteristics and, consequently, influence their sporting performance. The aim of this study was to know the psychological characteristics of sports performance in baseline and pre-competition states in developmental soccer players and to analyze the relationship of these characteristics to cognitive and somatic anxieties and self-confidence. The participants were 86 soccer players from the province of Malaga (Spain) of U16 and U19 category. The instruments used were the CPRD-F (López-López, Jaenes-Sánchez y Cárdenas-Vélez, 2013) to assess the psychological characteristics of sports performance and the CSAI-2 (Martens, Burton, Vealey, Bump and Smith, 1990) to assess self-confidence and cognitive and somatic anxieties. These questionnaires were used in a baseline state and consecutively, in competition states. The results obtained indicated differences of motivation in both categories and of concentration in U16 category between basal and precompetitive states. In addition, an inverse relationship was found between motivation and cognitive anxiety (rho: -0.47, P < 0.05), which may be a determinant factor of attention in soccer. This work has contributed to increase the knowledge of the fluctuation of the psychological characteristics that influence the soccer players in states previous to the competition and the influence of the cognitive anxiety on the motivation of the soccer player.

Keywords : Soccer; motivation; anxiety; self-confidence and competition.

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