User:Apollo1997/Sport psychology

Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the confidence someone has in themselves and their abilities. This is why sport and physical activity as a whole has been proven to provide positive mental health benefits, such as more confidence and higher self-esteem. When athletes succeed in sport, they are more confident in their abilities and their self-worth as a result. Sport can also work inversely with self-esteem and cause athletes to feel worse about themselves. If someone is playing poorly then it is possible the athlete will end up thinking less of themselves and having lower self-worth. Playing sports in general, and doing some form of physical activity already immediately makes people think of themselves as more than which is shown by research.

Professional Sports
'In the realm of professional sports, the role of a sports psychologist is subject to change. Roles can change d based on the employment of staff within the organization from management to coaching staff. Although sports psychologist can benefit a professional sports organization in many different ways, they are typically brought in for a specific purpose. Examples of services performed include: performance enhancement services, clinical or counseling services, psychological testing, and mindfulness training. Through performance enhancement services, psychologist s help professional athletes with self - regulation to enhancing team cohesion. Sports psychologists in professional sports organizations also must be well trained in clinical or counseling psychology to help professional athletes deal with personal issues that occur off the field. Sports psychologists must also be trained in psychological testing which is generally used in pre-drafting situations as professional sports teams want to identify psychological factors that could negatively influence a draft candidate ' s potential.  Mindfulness techniques are also a useful too for sports psychologists to utilize as mindfulness training has been linked with better performance in professional competition.'

 Response to Peer-reviews 

Overall, the responses I have received from my peers has been helpful and I am looking to make changes based off of the feedback I have received. MoonRabbit1992 suggested many helpful changes that I will look to incorporate into my article with the first change I will be adding is to clean up the way some of my sentences are structured. She suggested that a few of my sentences were confusing so I will work on rephrasing them. Also, she suggested that there is bias language in my article which I will be looking to clean up as well. The last change I will be looking into suggested by MoonRabbit1992 is the placement of the Characteristics of Behavioral Sports Psychology, Social Validation in Sports Psychology, and Skills Acquisitions sections. These sections may need to be placed into another section. Dalia Arafat5221 and Lagg0515 suggested similar changes that I should look into making in relation to citations. They suggested I need to remove some of the statements in the article that do not include citations or I need to find a source for them. I will look to make the changes when working on my final draft. In all of my reviews from MoonRabbit1992, Dalia Arafat5221, and Lagg0515, they wrote that I need to find more recent sources which I definitely will be looking to do as the only source I have found is more than 10 years old. I appreciate the feedback and will take all of it into consideration when working on my final draft.