Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis
Psychological Skill Training (PST) for optimal performance in sports has received extensive attention from athletes, coaches, and experts, and numerous studies have been conducted, but despite this interest, it has not been the subject of any bibliographic analysis. The analysis covered 405 articles...
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| description | Psychological Skill Training (PST) for optimal performance in sports has received extensive attention from athletes, coaches, and experts, and numerous studies have been conducted, but despite this interest, it has not been the subject of any bibliographic analysis. The analysis covered 405 articles and reviews that were located in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science (Core CollectionTM) between 1992 and 2021. These papers were published by 1048 authors from 543 different universities across 54 countries in 107 different journals. The fundamental bibliometric calculations and co-word networks were completed. As a result, the following thematic elements were grouped into four clusters: (1) PST for stress, mental toughness, and coping, (2) PST for anxiety, motivation, self-confidence, and self-efficacy, (3) PST for flow and mindfulness, and (4) PST for emotions. From the results of this study, it was confirmed that the topic of PST is converging toward the best performance, with various approaches, such as stress management, anxiety control, and coping as techniques for PST. Furthermore, mindfulness and positive psychology studies emphasize athletes’ quality of life, so coaches and experts should pay more attention to improving athletes’ quality of life in future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5e73059693d42d5883bfc42ee154c622023-11-30T22:28:27ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322023-01-0111225910.3390/healthcare11020259Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric AnalysisInchon Park0Jonghwan Jeon1Department of Sports Convergence, Kyungil University, Gyeongsan 38428, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Sports Convergence, Kyungil University, Gyeongsan 38428, Republic of KoreaPsychological Skill Training (PST) for optimal performance in sports has received extensive attention from athletes, coaches, and experts, and numerous studies have been conducted, but despite this interest, it has not been the subject of any bibliographic analysis. The analysis covered 405 articles and reviews that were located in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science (Core CollectionTM) between 1992 and 2021. These papers were published by 1048 authors from 543 different universities across 54 countries in 107 different journals. The fundamental bibliometric calculations and co-word networks were completed. As a result, the following thematic elements were grouped into four clusters: (1) PST for stress, mental toughness, and coping, (2) PST for anxiety, motivation, self-confidence, and self-efficacy, (3) PST for flow and mindfulness, and (4) PST for emotions. From the results of this study, it was confirmed that the topic of PST is converging toward the best performance, with various approaches, such as stress management, anxiety control, and coping as techniques for PST. Furthermore, mindfulness and positive psychology studies emphasize athletes’ quality of life, so coaches and experts should pay more attention to improving athletes’ quality of life in future research.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/2/259psychological skillspsychological sportpsychological trainingmental trainingsportperformance |
| spellingShingle | Inchon Park Jonghwan Jeon Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis Healthcare psychological skills psychological sport psychological training mental training sport performance |
| title | Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_full | Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis |
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| title_short | Psychological Skills Training for Athletes in Sports: Web of Science Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_sort | psychological skills training for athletes in sports web of science bibliometric analysis |
| topic | psychological skills psychological sport psychological training mental training sport performance |
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