Die gebruik van sielkundige intervensies onder junior tennisspelers

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of sport psychology injunior tennis and todetermine:• whether coaches make use of psychological interventions,• whether coaches consider psychological interventions in junior tennis to be important,• what kind of psychological interventions coaches make use of, and• what kind of problems coaches encounter while teaching psychological interventions tojunior tennis players.Questionnaires were mailed off to all professional tennis coaches who are registered with TennisSouth Africa. The questionnaire which the coaches voluntarily answered, was an abbreviated,revised version of the questionnaire used by Gould et al. (1999a) for their study.\The results of this study show that coaches:• regard the teaching of psychological interventions to junior tennis players as veryimportant.• perceived the following as the most important psychological dimensions for juniortennis players: motivation, concentration, enjoyment, self-confidence and goal setting.• find the teaching process of psychological interventions to junior tennis players difficult.• encounter practical problems in the teaching of psychological interventions to juniortennis players. Lack of time is mentioned most often.Based on these outcomes, it is concluded that sport psychology has an important role to play injunior tennis. More research is needed to develop techniques and methods to effectively teachpsychological interventions to junior tennis players.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University