The Effect of a Psycho-Sport Counseling Curriculum on the Polar Thinking of Some Athletics Coaches

Abstract

    The research aimed to build a specialized scale to measure polar thinking among coaches of some athletics, and to prepare a psychological counseling curriculum to reduce the level of polar thinking among coaches of some athletics by adopting the diagnostic measurement of this psychological phenomenon, and to identify the effect of a psycho-sports counseling approach on the polar thinking of coaches of some athletics, and the experimental approach was based on a sample of (9) coaches who were procedurally selected according to the height of the level of polar thinking, to represent the percentage of (6.294%) of their community represented by the coaches of game clubs who continue their training work for the sports season (2023/2024), which are (143) coaches distributed by nature to (19) clubs, and after building the scale and preparing and applying the guidance sessions to them for (4) consecutive weeks at the rate of two sessions per week and the completion of this experiment, the results were processed by the (SPSS) systemThe preparation and application of the psychological sports counseling curriculum helps to reduce polar thinking that suits the coaches of some athletics, and it is necessary to pay attention to the psychological counseling curricula that take into account the specificity of the training and competitive environments. It is necessary for the psychological counselor to work on finding a friendly relationship with the counselors before applying the psychological counseling curricula that suit the sports environment and its specificity, and it is necessary to find a state of balance in the provision of counseling services without negligence or extravagance and to take into account the academic level of the counselors in the training and competitive environments, and it is necessary to pay attention to the periodic psychological and mental measurement of athletics coaches to realize psychological problems to which they are exposed before it worsens.