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RAMIREZ FLORES, Miguel Ángel¹. Psychological factors that influence performance sports of soccer players from the club Garcia Agreda Tarija City. Rev. Vent. Cient. [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.7, pp. 9-19. ISSN 2305-6010.

This research comes up as a response to face the need to be able to identify the psychological factors associated with the athletic performance of soccer players in the región in the various competitions they take part of, and from those results understand their performance on the playing field, pointing out that it depends not only on the talented athletes, ñor the technical and tactical approach - of the trainer. Therefore, this research consisted on establishing the following scientific problem: ¿What are the psychological factors influencing on the sporting performance of the soccer players at the Agreda García Club in the city of Tarija? Therefore the objective of the research is to "Determine the psychological factors influencing the sporting performance of the players at the Agreda García Club in the city of Tarija". In order to do this, the study population was 24 players who were part of the club in the years 2010-2011 , each of them with a vast experience on playing soccer at different clubs and the participation in the championships organized by Tarija's Soccer Association (ATF). The research is descriptive, since it makes a diagnosis by applying test or psychological standardized tests on each of the players that are part of the study population about personality traits, self-esteem, anxiety, sociometric diagnosis and finally the current psychological performance of soccer players. The results show that the soccer players at the club present features of personality characterized by insecurity, desire for self-improvement, imagination and sociability, showing low levéis of self-esteem, high levéis of anxiety before and during the competition, there is no good relationship and harmony reflected in low levéis of acceptance -rejection, group cohesión, and finally the level of psychological performance is average, some áreas required support to achieve optimum performance in training and competition. Therefore, the different psychological factors considered in this research influence on the sporting performance of the soccer players some how; on this bases, the need to work on the mental aspect of the 'players arise; this should be dealt through psychological support, if they are to achieve good results.

Palavras-chave : psychological factors; sporting performance; personality traits; self-esteem; anxiety; sociometric diagnosis; psychological performance.