RESEARCH THESIS ON IMPACTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS ON ATHLETES PERFORMANCE IN CASE OF GUJI ZONE ATHLETICS CLUBS

The impact of psychological factors on the athlete’s performance in five registered East Guji<br> zone athletics club was carried out from January 2014 to June 2014 E.C. In the study areas<br> athlete’s performance addresses the problem of impact of the psychological factors. The purpose<br> of this study was to assess the impacts of psychological factors on athlete’s performance. A total<br> of 400 respondents (179 male and 192 females) were purposively and randomly selected from<br> complete list of five athletics clubs. Data were collected using interviews, open ended and close<br> ended questionnaires, observation and focus group discussions. The collected data were<br> analyzed by using descriptive for demographic characteristics and inferential statistics for<br> independent and dependent variables. SPSS Version 20 was used to analyze the data. As a result<br> absence of motivation from concerned body and unfair selection of athletes for competition were<br> the major factors affects the performance of athletes of the Guji zone clubs, they shares 52.75%<br> and 41.25% respectively. The remaining factors lack of enough training or mental preparation,<br> coach performance, loss of rewards during competitions, lack of working by team or team<br> strength, and environmental conditions like training area landscapes and climate, injuries of<br> very important athlete’s from the team were the other factors affects the performance of athletes<br> that constitutes 36.25%, 21.75%, 14.75%, 8% and 6.75% respectively. Therefore, according to<br> the analysis of the factors affecting the performance of the athletes majorities of informants<br> reveals encouragements from governmental body is very low that in turns to affect the<br> performance of the athletes during training and competition. Moreover, the selection of athletes<br> for competition was not fair this is the important issue that demoralizes the athletes.