Research On The Flowing Psychological State Of Speed Skaters And Phycological Influencing Factors

With the continuous development of speed skating, the technical gap of athletes indifferent countries has narrowed gradually. Scientific training, therefore, plays an importantrole in raising speed skaters’competitive ability to achieve the best results. A good mentalitycan guarantee the best possible performance. The flowing psychological state, affected by thepre-competition phycological state, gives an impetus to the final results of speed skaters. As aresult, based on the existing Flow State Scale and Pre-competition Psychological StateQuestionnaire, my article focuses on the characteristics of speed skaters’ flowingpsychological state during the game and pre-competition psychological state before the gamein the perspective of sports psychology driven by the existing fruits of flowing psychologicalstate research by the means of statistical method of psychological measurement. My articlewill also discuss the influencing factors of individual psychological state on the formation offlowing psychological state, identify problems and put forward recommendations forpsychological adjustment to lay a theoretical foundation for training psychological quality ofour Chinese skate speeders.My article adopts the method of literature, questionnaires, expert interviews and statisticson researching speed skaters’ psychological state before and during the speed skating game.The research of the individual psychological affecting factors shows that both anxiety for ownfailure and anxiety to social expectations make an appreciable influence in speedskaters’psychological state before game and may lead to bad performance. The specificresearch conclusions are as follows:1. The flowing psychological state of speed skaters have eight dimensions:"balance","integration","target","feedback","focus","control","consciousness" and "enjoy".2. The flowing psychological state and psychological state before games of sportsmenand women are nearly the same. The longer training time and the more race experience, theeasier for speed skaters to form flowing psychological state and the less they will be anxiousbefore game. Thus, they are easily to pay attention to the game itself.3. The main individual psychological factors affecting athletes’ flowing psychologicalstate are state attention, self-efficacy, anxiety to personal failure and social expectations.4. Excellent speed skaters are less anxious before games. The six dimensions, the balance between challenges and personal ability, the integration of movement and awareness,clear objectives, attention focused on the current task, a sense of control as well as theexperience of self-set goal, paly an absolute role in speed skaters’final performance.A variety of training methods should be adopted in training period and differences ofspeed skaters also should be paid attention to. A thorough training program should bearranged during the contest to stabilize athletes’ mentality, reduce anxiety and promote theformation of flowing psychological state, hence speed skaters having the possibility to exerttheir best competitive level.