Abstract
Nowadays, the psychology factor is getting more and more important in high level table tennis competition. Meanwhile, Flow state, as an optimal psychology state, is closely relevant to achieve good performance. The purpose of this paper is to help elite table tennis athletes achieve optimal performance by analyzing influential factors that enhance flow.
The study investigated influential factors that elite table tennis players felt helped, prevented, and disrupted flow occurrence. A total of 181 elite table tennis player participants were enrolled in the study. Participation was restricted to elite-level. Result showed that the influential factors of flow state of elite table tennis athletes are composed of actively psychology qualities, sufficient psychology preparation before the competition, athletics level of player, peak experience, referee, tactics and strategy, instruction of coach in the course of competition.
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Jing, Y. (2012). Influential Factors in Flow States of Elite Table Tennis Athletes in China. In: Wu, Y. (eds) Advanced Technology in Teaching - Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (WTCS 2009). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25437-6_85
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