Mental Skills Academic Compatibility and Their Relationship to Skill Self-Concept in Female Students’ Fencing Lesson
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Mental skills, Academic compatibility, Self-skillsAbstract
Mental skills are an important dimension in educational process, especially in field of sports, as they play a fundamental role in development. And mastery of motor skills, especially offensive and defensive fencing skills, as they are characterized by motor performance. Academic compatibility, on other hand, refers to student's appropriate behavior to confront all problems arising from satisfying and fulfilling social and psychological needs, establishes a set of constructive social relationships with colleagues and teachers and actively participates in cultural, social, and sports activities, while skill-based self is a cognitive process for current level of basic skills and continuity by performing all exercises with high spirits and morale, through an understanding of attractiveness of physical form and also ability to protecting human body and maintaining confidence in one 's outward appearance, and based on the researchers' belief in importance of mental skills and academic compatibility among female students in their overall academic journey. Skill-based self plays a role in learning and self-confidence in sports situations, the researchers urged further study of these variables and an understanding of their true nature through interviews and expert guidance, they found weaknesses in three measures: mental skills, academic adjustment, and especially skills-based abilities female students of physical education and sports science colleges this is a modest scientific attempt, a contribution to service of build community, the study aims to preparing measures of mental skills, academic compatibility, and self-skill in fencing lesson, identifying reality of mental skills, academic compatibility, identifying relationship between mental skills, self-skills, academic compatibility, and self-skills in a fencing lesson for the female students. Conclusions were members of sample enjoyed good levels in mental skills, academic compatibility, and self-skill, a significant correlation between mental skills and skill self, also between academic compatibility and skill self in fencing, there is a correlational relationship between mental skills and academic compatibility with skill self in fencing lesson for female students.
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