The Psychological Research Development Of China’s Competitive Volleyball

Objectives:The author of the paper tries to give an objective illustration of current psychological studies of competitive volleyball from several aspects—quantities,methods,main domains as well as the trend.Such an illustration may bring new thoughts and perspectives to psychological studies of competitive volleyball,and may also provide a guideline for later studies.Besides,a comparison between psychological studies of competitive volleyball and psychological studies of basketball and football will further the studies of competitive volleyball,and make a positive influence on the development of sports psychology.Findings:By consulting literature and doing statistical and logic analysis,the author analyzes psychological studies of competitive volleyball,basketball and football since 1993 and summarizes following findings.1.From 1993 to the first half year of 2008,the number of psychological studies of competitive volleyball is 15 to 20 each year.The quantity of these studies hits its peak in 2002,2003,2006,2007 and the first half year of 2008.2.In psychological studies of competitive volleyball,the basic methodologies are literature consultation,statistic analysis,logic analysis, observation,questionnaires and experiments,with literature consultation and statistic analysis as the main methods.3.Psychological studies of competitive volleyball focus on psychological training and sports cognition.Studies of psychological training focus on skills while studies of sports cognition focus on strategies.4.Studies of individual psychology in competitive volleyball seldom use characteristics of individual psychology as their topic.They mainly concern individual motives and dispositions.5.The two trends of Psychological studies of competitive volleyball are psychological physiology and psychological exhaustion.Psychological studies of competitive volleyball,basketball and football are at quite a low level.Further studies are needed in this aspect.6.Scholars,professors,postgraduate students,and doctor candidates are main researchers in the field of sports psychology.They have some advantages in publishing papers.7.Comparing with psychological studies of basketball and football,psychological studies of competitive volleyball is less in number and shallower in depth.