Development of the Application for Feedback of Psychological Test Results on Athletes

Abstract

Recently, in addition to physical and skill training, mental training for athletes is increasingly important. Mental training encourages athletes to acquire psychological skills such as relaxation and emotional control with the purpose of demonstrating their abilities in competition settings. In particular, psychological tests to measure psychological characteristics are necessary for grasping the psychological state of individual athletes and verifying the effectiveness of training. However, psychological tests on a regular basis can be a burden for athletes. In addition, there is also a problem that the management and feedback of psychological data by questionnaires is burdensome for mental trainers in cases where subjects are a large group, such as a sports team. Therefore, this study developed an application that visualizes athletes' psychological data gathered through web questionnaires. In addition, we conducted an interview on the developed applications for coaches and athletes belonging to the sports team. Based on the results of interviews, the methods of psychological tests and feedback from the test results considering the competitors were discussed.