The player's mood in a professional soccer team: A study between regular players and subtitutes

Authors

  • Ricardo de la Vega Marcos Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Roberto Ruiz Barquín Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Guber David García Adrianzén Agrupación Deportiva Alcorcón S.A.D.
  • Sagrario del Valle Díaz Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Keywords: Mood States, Soccer, Regular players, substitutes

Abstract

The aim of this paper focuses on determining the importance of the players´mood in a professional football team to study the differences between regular players and substitutes. The sample consisted of players from the AD Alcorcón, a third division team of the Spanish football league (Madrid, Spain), which were evaluated using the short version of the Profile of Mood State (POMS, McNair, Lorr and Droppelmann, 1971), in version of 29 items (Fuentes, García-Merita, Meliá and Balaguer, 1995), for five regular season games, immediately prior to the competition on the stage of promotion to Division 2 A-. By means of a nonparametric test for independent samples Mann-Whitney, significant differences are revealed in two of the five scales of the POMS, in particular, on the scale of anger and depression. The results allow us to reflect on strategies for the optimization of the psychological performance of regular players and substitutes at key moments to improve the ratings provided by players that deviate from the ideal profile "iceberg" (Morgan, 1980a, 1980b).

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Published
20-07-2011
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de la Vega Marcos, R., Ruiz Barquín, R., García Adrianzén, G. D., & del Valle Díaz, S. (2011). The player’s mood in a professional soccer team: A study between regular players and subtitutes. Sport Psychology Notebooks, 11(2), 107–117. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/cpd/article/view/133271
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