A Study on Exploring Athletes’ Self-Perceived Pressure and Their Physical/psychological Self-Awareness towards Yoga Group Courses

• Main Authors: Mei-fang Huang, 黃美芳
• Other Authors: Cong-zhi Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tx999x

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 97 === A Study on Exploring Athletes’ Self-Perceived Pressure and Their Physical/psychological Self-Awareness towards Yoga Group Courses Abstract This study is the qualitative research aiming to detect the change and impact on athletes’ self-perceived pressure and physical/psychological self-awareness for yoga group courses. There were five athletes emphasis on the superb sport events recruited from National Pingtung University of Education as participants for the present study. The five athletes attended the group courses twice a week for eight weeks . Individual pre- and post- interviews were conducted for tackling the ideas of the yoga courses. Besides, heuristic research analysis was applied for analyzing the interview results of yoga competition. Some various kinds of auxiliary researching tools were collected via dynamic vehicles including yoga course feedback sheets, weekly self-awareness journal, body diagram, observational record, checklist of interview, and follow-up questionnaire. In order to maximize the validity and integrity, these resources were concluded and analiyzed the feedback messages from athletes through triangulation research. Results were listed as below: 1. On the physical self-awareness domain: Participants are able to detect their changes of breath, to realize the improvement of muscle flexibility, to promote their concentration, to realize the feeling of relaxation, to perceive their changes of body, to detect the increase of frequency, to understand their own bodies and to upgrade the sensitivity towards their bodies. 2. On the physical and psychological self-awareness domain: Athletes are capable of obtaining the sense of achievement once if bodies had made progress, keeping the stable emotion status, realizing the psychological perception from physical changes, perceiving the physical changes from psychology, and experiencing more interactions between physical and psychological awareness. 3. On the process of change and establishment of belief domain toward physical and physical/psychological self-awareness: Participants have the beliefs that they can understand themselves from their bodies, believe in the influence of body on their psychology and interpret the meaning which bodies express. 4. On the change of daily life domain: Athletes can strengthen their speciality, promote the awareness toward physical status, increase the option of solutions, form a habit of taking good care of themselves, facilitate the relaxation, regulate emotions calmly, increase the energy, share what they have learned with others, learn how to treat themselves well and increase their work efficiency. 5. On the changes of self-perceived pressure domain: Participants can implicitly describe the pressure, realize the importance of life planning, deal with the interpersonal relationship well from unfamiliarity to familiarity, understand well how to breathe for relaxing, reflect themselves steadily, learn well how to stop to consider instead of taking action hastily, replace anxiety from the peaceful mind and face bravely the negative emotion instead of escaping from it. 6. On the changes of competition pressure domain: Athletes are able to adjust their breath regularly before the competition, massage themselves for helping to relax, facilitate to stretch their bodies, and regulate their breath during the competition. 7. On the interaction of group interpersonal relationship domain: Participants can increase the sense of universality, impart the information continuously, increase the chance of interpersonal learning, raise the group cohesiveness, facilitate to catharsis, help to self-understand and also realize others. Last but not the least, the results proposed by the researcher aim to provide the guidelines and some future suggestions for those collegiate counselors and physical practitioners. Keyword: Athlete, yoga group course, self-perceived pressure, physical/psychological self-awareness.