Mental toughness and its relationship to facing the psychological stresses of the female beginners in swimming

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of athletics, Department of track and field competitions training - Faculty of Physical Education for Girls – Helwan.

2 Associate lecturer, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods - Faculty of Physical Education - Mansoura University

Abstract

The research aims to identify the effect of a psychological education program on the level of achievement of the beginners of swimming using the experimental method by designing two groups, one of which is experimental and the other is control, (20) juniors for the experimental group, (20) juniors for the control group and (20) juniors for the pilot group and the most important results are statistically significant differences between the pre and post measurements of the control and experimental groups in the variables of the level of achievement of the butterfly stroke in favor of the post measurements of both groups with the superiority of the post measurements of the experimental group compared to the control group. This pushes us to recommend conducting more psychological programs in different sports and the use of other psychological skills commensurate with the type of sports activity and nature of the sample.
Research Methodology: The quasi-experimental Curriculum was used by designing the two groups, one group is experimental and the other one is control by following the pre and post measurements of the two groups (experimental and control).
Sample of the research: The sample of the research was chosen by the deliberate method of swimmers of Mansoura Sports Stadium, registered with the Egyptian Swimming Federation, aged 10-12 years, randomly divided into two equal groups, one of which is control and the other is experimental, each group consists of (20) beginners