To examine the relationship between students’ athletic ability and their psychological skills in the athletic club and the school life setting, 99 players from high school soccer teams were administered with the Psychological Skills Inventory for Athletic Clubs and the Psychological Skills Inventory for School Life. Five coaches of the soccer teams evaluated the players’ athletic ability, using...

Mental disorders affect a great number of people worldwide. Four out of the 10 leading causes of disability in the world are mental disorders. Because of the scarcity of specialists around the world and especially in developing countries, it is important for primary care physicians to provide services to patients with mental disorders. The most widely researched and used psychological approach ...

the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based model (dir) aims to describe and explain human psychological development in an integrated way. it has been believed that cognitive, linguistic, affective, personality abilities emerge within stages of “functional emotional development”. the human development influenced by a dynamic interaction among biopsyosocial variables. as a child...

Many studies with different settings have confirmed that there is a performance difference in spatial skills between men and women, especially in the domain of mental rotation. The mental rotation performance is influenced by many different factors, such as training, sexual orientation, age, hormonal level or psychological influence. Video game usage positively affects the performance on mental...

Background No literature reviews have systematically identified and evaluated research on the psychological determinants of endurance performance, and sport psychology performance enhancement guidelines for endurance sports are not founded on a systematic appraisal of endurance-specific research. Objective A systematic literature review was conducted to identify practical psychological interven...

BACKGROUND No literature reviews have systematically identified and evaluated research on the psychological determinants of endurance performance, and sport psychology performance enhancement guidelines for endurance sports are not founded on a systematic appraisal of endurance-specific research. OBJECTIVE A systematic literature review was conducted to identify practical psychological interv...

Use of automatically reinforced stereotypy as reinforcement has been shown to be successful for increasing socially desirable behaviors in persons with intellectual disabilities (Charlop, Kurtz, & Casey, 1990; Hanley, Iwata, Thompson, & Lindberg, 2000; Hung, 1978). A component analysis of this treatment was conducted with 3 adolescents who had been diagnosed with autism, and then extended by (a...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of progressive muscle relaxation and autogenic training on psychological parameters of girls For the purpose of the present study, sixty (N=60) female subjects between the age group of 22-25 years (Mean ± SD: age 20.21 ± 1.59 years, body mass 53.21 ± 7.25 kg, height 160.82 ± 7.38m) were selected as subjects from Department of Physical Education...