Psychological aspects of success and reliability demonstration among basketball players in competitive activity

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Aleksey V. Pushkarev, Institute of Physical Culture and Sport Udmurtia State University Izhevsk, Russia ORCID: 0000-0002-6192-4624, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract:

Theoretical analysis of studying confidence and reliability increase in basketball players helps to consider athletes’ reliability both from quantitative and qualitative views. An integral index of this is competitive result of the team. The article is about psychological aspects of confidence and reliability demonstration in basketball players. It is mentioned that the success of the team during competitions mainly depends on the ability of each player to control own psychic state. Confidence and reliability study in basketball players can include different levels of training and readiness revelation. This, first of all, is achieved by psychological training organization. Research methods. Information sources, concerning the questions of psychological readiness and the levels of confidence and reliability, analysis and summarizing, questioning, questionnaire survey, observation and conversation. Materials. The main parts of psychological aspects of success and reliability demonstration in basketball players were revealed with the help of individual and group conversations and a questionnaire survey. The questions for a questionnaire survey were formed in order to reveal structural components of confidence and reliability demonstration in basketball players at the stage of precompetitive training. Basketball players of a national basketball team took part in the research. Results. During the conversation and a questionnaire survey we revealed the attitude of basketball players to such psychological categories, as confidence and reliability. We defined structural components of confidence and reliability demonstration among basketball players in the training process and during the period of training for competitions. We revealed the levels of confidence and reliability demonstration: physical, psychological, volitional, information, managerial and resulting. We gave the characteristics of all levels of confidence and reliability demonstration. Conclusion. We specified aspects of psychological training, directed towards confidence and reliability formation in the players of basketball team: the aims and objectives of psychological training at an individual and team levels; basketball players’ psycho-emotional and psychic state estimation and correction during the trainings and games; psycho-regulating trainings organization during basketball players training; personal practical recommendations given to the players for psychoemotional state regulation for the whole period of training; differentiated influence on psychoemotional state; recommendations of individual techniques of self-regulation; individual and group consultations organization; the events directed toward a united team creation; the ability formation to use the technique of an individual psychic state regulation and a positive influence on the atmosphere inside the team.

Keywordsbasketball players, confidence, reliability, psychological aspects of training, psychic state.

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For citation: Aleksey V. Pushkarev* Psychological aspects of success and reliability demonstration among basketball players in competitive activity. Russian Journal of Physical Education and Sport. 2020; 15(2): 74-79. DOI: 10.14526/2070-4798-2020-15-2-92-98