Experimental Study Of Table Tennis Players Choking Phenomenon Under Pressure

In many international contests, athletes often play disorders at a criticalmoment, expressed as unresponsive actions, deformation, mistakes again and again,resulting in losing the match, and the gold.Psychology named this phenomenon “the phenomenon of choking underpressure” which occurred under the pressure, a habit of technical action in the processof implementation get decay. Recent years, the choking phenomenon become the hotpoint in international psychology.In this paper, we use some research methods, such as literature data,experimental method, questionnaire, logical analysis, mathematical statistics, etc.Based on the81students from the key high schools in Chengdu city, Sichuan province(boys:55; girls:26)as the objects of study. Research on under different attentiondirection, the abecedarians and the experts’ differences in athletic performance. Andunder the pressure, the phenomenon of choking of table-tennis players. Investigatedifferent attention directions affect on the athletics performance. Reveal thepsychological mechanism of “choking” of table-tennis athletes under pressure. Thispaper will contribute to the table-tennis coaches and athletes get better understandingon the phenomenon of choking and its mechanism, table-tennis athletes’ selection,and the intervention and prevention of phenomenon of choking, so as to guide thetable-tennis’s teaching and training practice better.This study fully tested experimental assumptions, the conclusions as follows.1. In experts group, when subjects pay attention turned to the specific technicaloperation, not only failed to improve their athletic performance, but affect theimplementation of the action of the movement.2. In abecedarians group，when subjects pay attention turned to the specifictechnical operation, can help its performance, but not obviously.3. Compared with the subjects under the low pressure, the subjects’ goal scoresunder the high pressure decreasing obviously with significant differences.4. Personal self-awareness, positive coping style, self-efficacy, competitive traitanxiety and expect to win are the key factors in the phenomenon of choking, chokingphenomenon predictor variables.