ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN SPORTS AND MOVEMENT LEISURE

Abstract

The role of mind has become even more important with the rapidly increasing commercialization of sport, which has presented new pressures for athletes across many levels and ages. Sports psychology is an interdisciplinary science, studying how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affects psychological and physical factors. Sports psychology helps to predict the sportsmen’s behavior under stress and tension. The knowledge of sports psychology helps to improve the performance of an individual by controlling negative factor.