Emotions, Mental Health and Sport Performance

Xinyu Ou

2025

Abstract

Performance in sports has always been the most important thing that athletes and coaches value, but they usually ignore the impact of individual factor. This research focused on studying how emotions and mental health impact athletes’ performance. This study reviewed past research on emotions and mental health and their relationship with performance. Emotion includes positive and negative emotions, and they are integrated within an individual. How athletes perceive emotions will affect their performance, and learning to regulate emotions is an essential lesson to learn for athletes. Negative emotion is negatively correlated with sport performance. Positive emotion has no straightforward correlation with performance, but it can enhance well-being and further improve performance. Mental health problems have been one of the main concerns among athletes, especially for competitive and elite athletes. Mental illness is usually caused by abuse, maltreatment, stigmatization, etc., and can cause athletes to perform poorly and cause serious issues such as anxiety and suicide. Repeating tasks can cause mental fatigue. Fatigue reduces cognitive perception and further affects sport performance. Because of athletes’ unique identities, it is important for coaches to pay more attention to athletes’ mental state and help to prevent mental illness and maintain stable emotions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ou X. (2025). Emotions, Mental Health and Sport Performance. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM; ISBN 978-989-758-791-7, SciTePress, pages 351-356. DOI: 10.5220/0014113800004942

in Bibtex Style

@conference{apmm25,
author={Xinyu Ou},
title={Emotions, Mental Health and Sport Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM},
year={2025},
pages={351-356},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014113800004942},
isbn={978-989-758-791-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM
TI - Emotions, Mental Health and Sport Performance
SN - 978-989-758-791-7
AU - Ou X.
PY - 2025
SP - 351
EP - 356
DO - 10.5220/0014113800004942
PB - SciTePress