Percepción de los entrenadores de las ligas profesionales de Idermeta frente a la psicología del deporte

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the perception of Idermeta professional league coaches regarding of sport psychology, which is conceived as an applied area of psychology based on the creation of evaluation and intervention processes to improve the athlete’s performance; in this sense, the aim of this research relates to the psychological variables of sports activity, as well as the athlete and the psychological foundations of physical preparation. In this qualitative research with a narrative design, six coaches attached to Idermeta participated in the football and futsal leagues, which were selected through a non-probabilistic sampling of volunteers, taking into account their professional training in the sports area and their experience in interdisciplinary work with a sports psychologist. The technique selected for information collection was a semi-structured interview, which included 11 questions distributed in three central analysis units (a) information and knowledge, (b) attitudes towards relevance and (c) attitudes towards effectiveness. The categorical analysis used, through the manual preparation of registration tables, in which the information provided by the participants was coded and subsequently interpreted. It found that there is a positive perception of the work carried out by the sports psychologist and the need to include it throughout the sporting process and not only in the competition, since the preparation stage is essential for sports performance.