| With the development of sports dance,more and more people know and feel the fun of this sport,the figure of Chinese Latin dancers is also increasingly active on the stage of competitions at home and abroad,colleges and universities are important bases for cultivating Latin dancers,so improving the competitive level of Latin dancers in college students plays a very important role in the development of this sport.In the contemporary sports competitions,psychological quality is a key factor that affects athletes’ excellent results.Therefore,it is necessary to study the mental state of Latin dancers,the flow state is a kind of perfect competitive state which is helpful for athletes to improve their technical level and performance.According to the psychological characteristics of Latin dancers,this study used the methods of literature,psychometric,questionnaire,interview and mathematical statistics to investigate Latin dancers participating in the 15th China College Student Sports Dance Championships.The characteristics of the flow state in the competition and its influencing factors provide corresponding methods and suggestions for improving the athletic ability of Latin dancers,and enrich the theoretical basis of psychological research on athletes in difficult-to-beauty events.Through research,the following conclusions are drawn:1、The flow state of college Latin dancers is above average.The main characteristics of the flow state in the competition are the Autotelic experience、Clear goals and Focus on the task at hand.2、The flow state of male athletes is better than that of female athletes,and there are significant differences in the two characteristics of the Autotelic experience and Loss of self-consciousness.3、Latin dance athletes in university and college with longer training years are more likely to experience flow state than those with shorter training years.There are significant differences in the Challenge-skills Balance、Clear goals、High sense of control and Autotelic experience for contestants of different training years.4、Among the different competition events,the flow experience of double project is the best,followed by the group dance,single player event is low.There were significant differences among the three groups in Challenge-skills Balance、Action-awareness merging、Unambiguous feedbacks and Autotelic experience.5、The flow state level of Latin dance athletes in the professional group is higher than those in the amateur group,moreover,athletes in the professional group scored significantly higher than those in the amateur group in terms of Clear goals and Autotelic experience.6、There are eight main factors that affect the flow state of college students’ Latin dancers in the competition.They are proper physical preparation,competition experience,self and teammate state,optimal arousal level,concentration,positive and confident attitude,competition strategy and competition situation. |