Effects Of Athletes' Training Satisfaction On Mental Fatigue

For athletes,training satisfaction is one of the guarantees for them to get better result in the competition.Training satisfaction refers to an emotional reaction that the athletes made a comprehensive cognitive evaluation of the training or the factors related to the training,like coaches,teammates,and sports teams.High levels of athlete training satisfaction can enhance athletes' motivation,improve their performance in competition or training,and enhance team cohesion.In previous studies,the effect of training satisfaction on athletes and its mechanism were rarely discussed in depth.Therefore,the aim of this study is to explore the effect of training satisfaction on athletic mental fatigue,and to conduct a further study by adding emotion regulation strategy as mediating variable.This study uses athletes training satisfaction scale,emotion regulation strategy scale,and mental fatigue scale in 274 athletes in order to understand the present situation of the training satisfaction and discuss the impact of mental fatigue on athletes training satisfaction,so as to verify the mediating effect of emotion regulation strategy,which can provide theoretical basis for the follow-up research.The conclusions are as follows:(1)Athletes have a high level of training satisfaction,and moderate degree of mental fatigue.In terms of training satisfaction,the training satisfaction of the second-level athletes is higher than that of the athletes of other levels,and the training satisfaction of the athletes who have played sports for 4 years or less is higher than that of the athletes of other years.In terms of mental fatigue,the mental fatigue degree of athletes with the sports time of 4 years or less is higher than other athletes.(2)Training satisfaction can significantly negatively predict mental fatigue,and it can also indirectly reduce the mental fatigue degree of athletes through the mediating effect of sub-dimensional cognitive reappraisal of emotion regulation strategy.(3)Expressive suppression has no mediating effect between training satisfaction and mental fatigue.(4)Emotional regulation plays a part in mediating between training satisfaction and mental fatigue.Specifically,training satisfaction can not only directly and negatively predict mental fatigue,but also indirectly reduce the mental fatigue degree of athletes through cognitive reappraisal of sub-dimension of emotional regulation strategy.However,it cannot affect mental fatigue indirectly through expressive suppression of sub-dimension of emotional regulation strategy.