The relationship between psychological skills and performance of elite college basketball players in China

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	The relationship between psychological skills and performance of elite college basketball players in China
	Lei, S. M.; Wang, Yi; Wong , C.L.
	2019-06-27
Source Publication	Book of Abstracts FIEP World Congress (FIEP 2019 Barcelona)
Publication Place	Barcelona
Abstract	Introduction Psychological skills are considered as significant factors to optimal players’ performance (Abdullah, Musa, Maliki, Kosni, & Suppiah. 2016; Perkos, Theodorakis, & Chroni, 2002). Taylor (1995) established a conceptual model that emphasized meeting the special needs of athletes with critical psychological factors could affect performance. Besides, players in different positions could target and training the special psychological skill to maintain and improve the performance in games (Thelwell, Greenlees, Weston, 2006). This study aims to investigate the relationship among psychological skills, basketball skills and game performance of elite basketball players in Macao. Methods Participants The participants were 16 male players (18-22) from the University of Macau who played in the Chinese University Basketball Association (CUBA) in southwest region league. All players were male with a range of 0 to 10 years of competitive experience in basketball including 4 center-forward players (22.22%), 7 forward players (38.89%), and 7 guards (38.89%). All of them volunteered for the study and signed informed consent before the study. Participants were also informed that all data would remain anonymous and confidential. Measurements and procedure Instruments for Psychological skills. This study used the Psychological Skill Inventory for Basketball Players (PSIBP), which is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure the characteristics of psychological skill for basketball players (Leong, 2011). PSIBP is composed of eight aspects including 52 items and rate on a 5-point Likert scale, scaled by 1(never) to 5 (always), with good expert validity and internal reliability valued by Cronbach’s α, 0.927. The eight subscales separately measure cognitive control, motivation, coordinating ability, concentration, confidence, coping with anxiety, judgment, and willpower with good reliability, Cronbach’s α ranged from 0.643 to 0.885. The construct validity was evaluated by Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), factor loading ranged from 0.542- 0.825 in previous development study (Leong, 2011). Before the PSIBP, all participants completed the demographic and background information collection, which included age, the role in the games, the competitive experience, and autonomous exercise frequency per week. Game performance. Efficiency (EFF) calculation of the NBA was used to evaluate the game performance of basketball players in this study. EFF calculates the average of individual overall performance in the games considering points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and so forth. The formula of EFF is: EFF = ((Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) - ((Field Goals Att. - Field Goals Made) + (Free Throws Att. - Free Throws Made) + Turnovers))/Games played Basketball skills. Six basketball special skills were tested in this study, including lay-up, dribble, pass, shoot, rebound, and shuttle run with the ball. The procedure we first connected the coaches and administrators. Informed consent was sent to athletes, and participants were asked to complete the demographic questionnaire. The basketball skills and psychological skills were tested before preseason game. The game performance of each player was recorded in every competitive match during one season. Discussion Psychological skills could predict the performance which includes basketball skills and match point-made which was consistent with previous research (Chen, 2009). The prediction of motivation and coping anxiety skills to the three-point made was found in this study. Basketball players could have a better game performance with moderate motivation and coping anxiety skills, which help them stayed calm and exerted existed basketball ability when they played the games. This study also found that EFF was predictable by motivation, unexpectedly, we found that motivation had a negative relationship with point-made.
Keyword	psychological skills performance of elite college basketball players basketball players in China
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Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	47717
Document Type	Conference paper
Collection	Faculty of Education
Corresponding Author	Lei, S. M.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Lei, S. M.,Wang, Yi,Wong , C.L.. The relationship between psychological skills and performance of elite college basketball players in China[C], Barcelona, 2019.
APA	Lei, S. M.., Wang, Yi., & Wong , C.L. (2019). The relationship between psychological skills and performance of elite college basketball players in China. Book of Abstracts FIEP World Congress (FIEP 2019 Barcelona).

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