The effect of psychological counseling program on cognitive stress management soccer players

• Main Author: Nadim Sh. Al-Wattar
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences 2008-09-01
• Series: مجلة الرافدين للعلوم الرياضية
• Subjects: psychological counseling; cognitive stress; soccer
• Online Access: https://rsprs.mosuljournals.com/article_50059_febbf090f795973c407a977444c37edb.pdf

The research aims at constructing psychological counseling programme on cognitive stress management for soccer players and knowing the effect of reducing the cognitive stress of the players . The sample of this research (21) players from Al-Huriaa team which is one of the popular teams participated at friendship champion (2007) . The sample was divided in two groups , experimental group included (11) players and the control group included (10) players , equivalence has been done in the variables (age , training age , academic achievement , anxiety state ) as pretest . The state anxiety inventory (CSAI_2) has been used as a tool to measure the anxiety state which is typical scale has been construct by ( Martinez & et al , 1990 ) and translated to Arabic by ( Allawee , 1998 and Ratib , 2000) and applied by (Suleiman , 2001 ) in Iraqi society , the scale itself included three components which are (Cognitive anxiety , Somatic anxiety , Self confidence ) .The self confidence considered important instrument for controlling stress . The programme was designed according to the specific principal for construction the psychological programmes taking in the consideration its suitability for the specificity of stress management as psychological skill . The researcher depend on many specific resource and experts opinions in sport psychology who they working at the sport psychology unite at Victoria university in Australia . The research concluded the following results ; there are significant differences in Cognitive anxiety and Somatic anxiety between the two groups for the cognitive anxiety for the benefit of the experimental group , meanwhile there were no significant difference in all demands of the scale .The research conclusion is efficiency of the programme which has been constructed for counseling nevertheless to a certain on the rule of use training psychology skills when with competition stress in positive and mental and cognitive way for helping to get outstanding results in performance and achievement .The sport psychologist has an important role when treating psychological problems which encounter the players such as stress , anxiety , tension which have negative effect on the performance and achievement especially during the competition to support the players to surmount the stress and its causes .