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MODULE-2 Psychological Aspects
Dimension of Physical
Education and Yog Physical activity can improve the self-confidence in the child.

Participation in sports activity can enhance the personality development.
Regular participation in sports can reduce anxiety.

In short it can be said that psychology and sports are interrelated. Sports
psychology can help athletes to enhance their physical performance as well as
psychological performance through participation. The following factors
Note contribute the most in performance and the detailed explanations of psychological
factors are presented here.

Concentration

Goal-setting
Self-confidence
Imagery

Arousal regulation

Figure 6.3: Factors that contribute to performance
Arousal regulation

Arousal is a combination of physiological and psychological characteristics in a
person, and it refers to the intensity dimensions of motivation at a particular
moment. An individual becomes mentally and physically activated. Intensity of
arousal falls along a continuum ranging from not at all aroused (i.e. comatose)
to completely aroused.

Arousal has a direct relationship with physical performance. The two theories
can be considered with respect to relationship of arousal with performance. The
inverted U-theory and drive theory. Drive theory represents the linear relationship
between arousal and performance, which means that if the individual has low
arousal, the performance will be lower, and the player is not psyched up. As
arousal increases, performance increases as per the drive theory whereas Inverted
U theory shows that arousal and performance relationship will be the same as
drive theory up to optimal level where best performance occurs. After that further
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