Acta Psychologica Sinica


Volume 26 No 3, pp. 324-330 (August 1994)

DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY IN CHINA: HISTORY, PRESENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS

ZHANG Liwei and DING Xueqin

Abstract

This paper briefly reviewed the history of the development of sports psychology in China, pointing out that as an applied science, its main practice is the appraisal of psychological characteristics of outstanding athletes in the competition field and psychological selection of youth and teen-aged athletes, aiming at problems in training and competition, launching psychological. training and psychological counseling, and the training of coaches.In the future Chinese sports psychology should extend its research field, develop measurement tools and methods to fit the characteristics of Chinese physical education, and pay attention to absorb the new achievements in other fields such as cognitive psychology.
Keywords: Selectlon; Counseling; Measurement; Cognition

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