The Establishment and Maintenance of Sports Confidence: Mental Health Repair and Emotional Self-Efficacy Reconstruction Paths for Athletes after Major Competition Failures
Lili Meng, Fengyue PangAbstract
Objective
Major competition failures bring intense psychological pressure to athletes, leading to low sports confidence, unstable mental states and impaired mental health, and even loss of emotional self-efficacy. This study explores the reconstruction paths of athletes' psychological and emotional self-efficacy after failures, aiming to provide theoretical support for maintaining athletes' mental health, alleviating psychological pressure and rebuilding sports confidence.
Subjects and Methods
Taking 80 athletes who experienced major competition failures as research subjects, psychological scales were used to measure their psychological pressure, mental health status, sports confidence and emotional self-efficacy levels, and semi-structured interviews were combined to analyze the key factors affecting the reconstruction of their emotional self-efficacy and mental state.
Results
High psychological pressure after failures directly reduces athletes' emotional self-efficacy and sports confidence, and negative mental states further worsen their mental health; targeted psychological intervention can effectively alleviate pressure, stabilize mental states, improve emotional self-efficacy, and significantly promote the reconstruction of sports confidence.
Conclusions
Emotional self-efficacy is the core link between post-failure psychological pressure and sports confidence reconstruction, and mental health status is a key mediating factor. Scientific psychological intervention paths can effectively relieve athletes' psychological pressure, protect their mental health, rebuild emotional self-efficacy, and thus realize the stable establishment and maintenance of sports confidence.
Corresponding Author
Fengyue Pang, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116400, China.