Psychological impact on football players performance

The purpose of this study is to determine the psychological strength among football players. The psychological strength is most fundamental component to increase the performance of the players. Therefore this study attempts to analyze the significant of the psychological strength with the performance of the team. There were a total of (n=90) respondents who completed the questionnaire such as parents, coaches, friends, and sports agencies. Psychological strength dimension consists of self-confidence, motivational control, and focus control. The data analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures) software package Version 20.0. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were performed to validate the scales. The results shown that social support from parents, coach, friends and the sports agencies directly contribute towards overall social support which in turn, has significant relationships self-confidence, task orientation and ego orientation. In future research, a longitudinal study would be particularly useful to observe the model changes from one phase of footballers or any other sports performance by applying the model. This research suggests that future study should using mix-methods such as qualitative analysis in order to understand more to the real world of the footballers or other sports performance during training and competition and also looking into bigger samples of amateur and professional sportsman.