Características psicológicas relacionadas con el rendimiento competitivo en los jugadores de tenis de campo de la Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact that psychological variables have in the achieving the athletic success, the long-term continuity in the highly competitive sport that was applied to the field tennis athletes fromUniversidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)who were chosen as subjects. It was intended to evaluate all athletes representing the university in various sporting events, organized by the Liga Santandereana de Tenis and Asociación Colombiana de Universidades (ASCUN). As a tool for assessment the questionnaire “Psychological characteristics related to sports performance (CPRD)” was administered to the mentioned subjects. The statistical associations between the variables among the parameters measured by the questionnaire referred to, and the importance of psychological skills training to improve the sports performance were intended to analyze. In the first instance, it was applied a battery of questionnaires, where a prepared sociodemographic questionnaire and the CPRD were included, to know the current status of athletes, taking into account the dimensions that are part of the instrument. Then, an intervention from a pedagogical point of view by taking into account the dimensions of a TARGET was implemented. This process took about 20 weeks to finish again with the application of the battery of questionnaires and to know for possible modifications according to the stage of intervention, (Test-postest). The use of the CPRD questionnaire provided a measurement of a wide range of psychological variables in the specific context of sport