Study On Sport Confidence And Its Related Psychological Factors Of The Biathlon Athletes

The athletes’ sport confidence is a critical factor for sports’ level and athleticperformance. Thus, the athletes’ self-confidence was cared specially by researchers in thefield of sport. However, up to now, very limited studies have been carried out on biathlonproject, which is the snow potential advantageous project. Herein, we demonstrated the basiccharacteristics of biathlon athletes’ athletic self-confidence as well as the relativepsychological factors. Further, the relationships among them were also investigated so as toprovide the empirical support for psychological training and selection purpose.Questionnaire survey methods and case analysis were utilized in this study. We investigatedself-confidence and psychological influential factors from25biathlon athletes and analyzed5recognized elite athletes in the national team. Data was analyzed by SPSS17.0. The results areas following:1. The characteristics of sport confidence about the biathlon athletes: they had the commondegree of the trait sport confidence and the higher level of the state sport confidence; Nosignificant gender differences was observed in athletic self-confidence; The stateself-confidence in over the20-year-old group athletes was significantly higher than underthe20years group.2. The characteristics of relative influence factors about athletic self-confidence in thebiathlon athletes:(1) The terms of self-presentation in under the20years old groupathletes were significantly higher than over the20years old group;(2) all athletes showedhigher level in volition quality, the top three of the score was indomitableness, difficultybearing and self-actualization, respectively. The faith confirmation, terms of renitence,burnout durability in the male athletes were significantly better than the female athletes.The terms of objective clearness, terms of renitence and in over the20years old groupathletes were significantly higher than under the20years old group.(3) All athletes hadhigher level of coping skills, The ability of pay attention on work in the male athletes were significantly better than the female athletes.The score of coping with adversity inover the20years old group athletes was significantly higher than under the20years oldgroup.(4) Athletes’ mental fatigue was middle level. The score of accomplishmentdecrease in the non-national team players were significantly higher than the nationalathletes.3The relationships between athletic self-confidence and relative psychological effectfactors:(1) there were significant correlation between each dimension of athleticself-confidence and terms of objective clearness, terms of renitence, wisdom focus,self-realization, belief confirmation, ability to work under pressure, attention, goal setting,accomplishment decrease factors;(2) Trait task confidence was predicted significantly bysubstitution experience and skill performance of the explain rate was23.8%、47.5%. Thefactors of objective clearness, tenacity, wisdom focus, self-realization, faith confirmation,ability to work under pressure, attention, goal setting, achievement motivation andreduced sense of accomplishment were important predicted variables for state sportconfidence, trait task confidence and trait copping confidence.4Case analysis: Excellent biathlon athletes had strong self-confidence and volition. Theabilities of anxietas reduction and pressure endurance were needed to be improved for thefive athletes, one athlete need to improve the ability to cope with adversity, one athleteshould improve the attention, Two athletes had higher degree on the reduced sense ofaccomplishment and emotional/physical exhaustion.In summary, the study concluded as follows:Biathlon athletes had higher degree of athletic self-confidence, volition quality andcopping skills, and the common level of the mental fatigue. The contribution rate of eacheffect factors was high on the athletic self-confidence. Individual elite athletes need toimprove coping skills, and be given attention to the mental fatigue. We should not onlyconsider the characteristics of the sport confidence but also the characteristics of the eacheffect factors and their synthetic action on the sport confidence in the work of psychologicalselection, training and intervention.