(1.Department of Physical Educalion,Yulin Normal University,Yulin 537000,China;2.School of Health Sciences,Wuhan Institute of Physical Education,Wuhan 430079,China) Abstract: The authors selected core journals of physical education science and psychology as their research subject, which can reflect the current state of researches on sports psychology in China, analyzed totally 659 empirical re-search theses about sports psychology, which were published between 1998 and 2007 and selected by the authors via internet and manual retrieval, and reveled the following findings: researches on sports psychology are still somewhat inadequate; the overall quality of quantitative study should be further enhanced; the normal forms of qualitative study are not sufficiently recognized and valued; localized study should be strengthened; researchers should keep doing researches on individual cases of competitive sports psychology; deepening the recognition of qualitative study and integrating “quantitative” and “qualitative” normal forms are issues that should be showered attention on in future researches on sports psychology. Key words: sports psychology;core journals of physical education science and psychology;China |