Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.278
CORRELATION BETWEEN MENTAL FATIGUE AND SPORTS MANAGEMENT
Abstract
Sports fatigue is a common mental state for athletes, due to the high pressure of competitive sports. As a tool to promote self-efficacy, sports management has been increasingly adopted to relax the mental fatigue of athletes. Based on sports psychology, this paper explores the correlation between the mental state and sports management through a survey on 37 track-and-field athletes, using the 5-point scale. Through the analysis of the survey data, it is concluded that the mental fatigue induced by sports affects the brain functions, especially the cognitive processing ability; the symptoms of mental fatigue are attributable to the fatigue of the central nerves, which is in turn caused by bodily fatigue; sports management can greatly ease the mental fatigue induced by sports activities. The research results provide a new direction for curing sports fatigue.
Keywords
Sports science, mental fatigue, sports management, sports psychology.