(School of Physical Education,Liaoning Normal University,Dalian 116029,China) Abstract: By means of questionnaire survey and mathematical statistical methods, the author probed into the rela-tions between the optimistic or pessimistic tendency of male football players and their sports condition confidence as well as possible competition pressure adjusting functions, and revealed the following findings: 1) optimistic ten-dency and pessimistic tendency are relatively independent and significantly correlative; in the change of the sports condition confidence of individual male players, optimistic tendency has the protective function, while pessimistic tendency has the destructive function; comparatively, the passive function of pessimistic tendency is more powerful than the protective function of optimistic tendency; 2) competition pressure is a significant factor for adjusting out-come expectation tendency and sports condition confidence; its main function shows in that the protective signifi-cance of optimistic tendency on sports condition confidence tends to increase as the pressure level gets higher. Key words: sports psychology;sports condition confidence;competition pressure;male football player |