Development and Research Hot Issues of Mindfulness Training in Sports Research

Xinyang Lin

doi:10.6918/IJOSSER.202604_9(4).0015

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Xinyang Lin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202604_9(4).0015

Keywords:

Mindfulness training, Sport Psychology, Athletic Performance

Abstract

With the widespread application of mindfulness training in the fields of mental health and behavioral science, its theoretical value and practical significance in sports research have gradually attracted attention. In order to systematically sort out the development context and research hots issues of mindfulness training in the field of sports, this paper uses the method of combining literature review and topic induction to conduct a comprehensive analysis of relevant research at home and abroad. By searching the research results on mindfulness and sports situations in databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and China National Knowledge Network, we systematically collated them from aspects such as research development stages, intervention types, application fields and action mechanisms. The research results show that mindfulness training in the field of sports has experienced an evolution process from the introduction of psychotherapy paradigm, the expansion of competitive sports application to multi-scene integrated development, and the research theme has gradually shifted from mental health promotion to exercise performance optimization and comprehensive physical and mental regulation. Existing empirical research generally finds that mindfulness training can improve athletes 'attention control, emotional regulation and stress coping styles to a certain extent, but there are still differences in its direct impact on sports performance. At the mechanism level, relevant research mainly explains its action process from three paths: attention regulation, emotion and cognitive regulation, and body awareness and action control. Based on the synthesis of existing research, this paper further proposes an integrated theoretical framework of "Mindfulness, Self-Regulation-Performance Stability", arguing that mindfulness training indirectly promotes performance stability in competitive situations by improving individuals 'self-regulation abilities, rather than directly improving individual performance. At the same time, current research still has problems such as insufficient standardization of intervention models, lack of long-term follow-up research, and limited integration of multimodal evidence. The study believes that in the future, differentiated intervention research in different sports events should be strengthened, and multi-layer evidence verification should be carried out based on behavioral, physiological and neural indicators to promote the theoretical deepening and practical application of mindfulness training in the field of sports science.

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