Adolescents' sporting performance: external psychological influences

Abstract

To study, to understand and to analyze the effects of the supporter and of the media on adolescent athletes, in sporting moments, demand a select revision among subjects in constant effervescence, in the Sociology, Philosophy and Psychology of the Sport. This way, the direction option was for we discuss the Adolescence, the Anxiety and the Aggressiveness theoretically and, later, the supporter, to the light of the Sporting Psychology, leaving then for the analyses of the speeches picked in the field research. High published indexes, now, for the Brazilian press, about the violence and aggressiveness in the stadiums, involving adolescents besides, they turn necessary the research of the sport practiced by youths, as well as the forms of manifestation of the aggressiveness and anxiety presented in the sporting competitions, so much for the players as for the fans, in an explicit situation of cause - effect. Understanding that these external psychological influences can come to be responsible for other and more serious compromising of the mental health, besides the social maladjustments, our research, of the participant type, used of interview and questionnaires, with close to 500 young athletes, classifying the collected answers and analyzing - the to the light of that that of more modern we have in Sporting Psychology. Developing data of larger need of attention with the adolescents' sporting practice, as well as a better interaction parents - technicians are here answers to the initial questions. Objectively, this research sends to a larger reflection about the need of treating the Sport Psychology as one of the sciences of the sport of the highest intervention possibility, with the support and the complexity of interactions for her made possible. Such perceptions were us last due to the possibilities of the professionals' of the Physical education direct performance, Sport, parents and educators that have direct contact with a school or competitive sporting practice, as we verified, in elapsing of the collection of data.