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Sports Psychology Sports Psychology is the study of the effects of variables, such as life stress, mood, and motivation, on sport performance and sport related injuries. There can be many psychological problems with athletes,

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Sports Psychology

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Sports Psychology is

the study of the effects of variables, such as life stress, mood, and motivation, on sport performance and sport related injuries.

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There can be many psychological problems with athletes, including:

Anxiety
Depression
Post traumatic

response

Suicidal tendencies
Dealing with the

death of an athlete

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When an athlete is injured, he/she may go through many stages:

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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Relaxation in athletics:

Imagery, also known as

visualization, is mental training or mental rehearsal.

Muscle relaxation
riginated in the early

1900’s by Dr. Edmund

Jacobson. It consists
f a series of muscle