Vol. 12, Issue 3, 2024
Psychological Skill Training Deficiency and Future Transformation for Poverty Eradication Amongst Students- Athletes of Tertiary Institutions in Lagos State, Nigeria
Honawon N. P., Oyekunle A. O., Adesanya A. T., Sunmonu M. S.
Abstract
Psychological training of student-athletes is mostly given a less professional
approach among all the training that student-athletes undergo nowadays and
this can have an effect on the future transformation and poverty eradication. This study investigated the psychological skill training deficiency and future
transformation for poverty eradication amongst student-athletes of tertiary
institutions in Lagos State, Nigeria. One hundred and three (103) student- athletes, male (43) and female (60) from two tertiary institutions across eleven
(11) sports were multi-stage sampled for the study. Three (3) research
hypotheses were tested and data were collected with the use of a standardized
20-item “Sports Mental Training Questionnaire (SMTDQ)” with Cronbach’s ? = 83. The questionnaire was drawn based on a five-point Likert Rating Scale
with “1” standing for “strongly disagree” while “5” stands for “strongly
agree”. Chi-square and t-tests were used for data analyses. The results
indicated that there was a significant level of psychological skill training but
recorded no significant differences in the level of sports psychology skill
training among the student-athletes by gender and by their tertiary institution. It was recommended that appropriate measure such as contracting a
professional sports psychologist to assist in the psychological training of
students-athletes on a part-time basis should be employed if there is no
resources for full-time service so as to promote the marketability of the
student-athletes for their future transformation and by that help their
employability and poverty eradication
Keywords
Keywords: Skill Future transformation, Poverty eradication, Psychological skill training deficiency, Student-athletes
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