The Correlation Between Mental Health Level and Athlete’s Performance

Abstract

Recently mental health is taking a lot of attention and affect among people and athlete’s also with no exception, because athlete’s demand to show their best performance. In the middle of the training process physical ability and mental ability are the main things that could give effect to an athlete's performance. Many opinions agree about mental health roles in affecting the performance of athlete The objective of this research is to find the relationships in mental health level and athlete’s performance. The method that the author used in this research is literature review. The results show that there are contrary opinions, which are points of view that state that level of mental health is the main factor that determines the good or bad performance of athletes, but there are opinions that show vice versa which the level of the athlete's performance that affects the level of mental health. It could determine whether an athlete has good mental health or has a mental health disorder such as anxiety and depression. However, other than that some studies found that the level of mental health could affect the performance of athlete’s but not significantly because there are other factors that affect the athlete’s performance such as physical and environmental conditions that could affect it too.