(1.Hubei Exercise Training and Monitoring Key Laboratory,Wuhan Sports University,Wuhan 430079,China;2.College of Health Science,Wuhan Sports University,Wuhan 430079,China) Abstract: Self-talk is one of psychological skill training methods most widely applied in modern competitive sports psychological skill training, also an international hot issue about sports psychological research. The authors com-prehensively reviewed and collated the current situation of self-talk research in the sports area at home and abroad, and on the basis of reviewing existing research, expected future research: strengthen localization research, develop athlete self-talk measurement tools under the background of Chinese culture; involve cognitive neuroscience re-search technology, reveal the intrinsic mechanism of self-talk; introduce pressure scenarios, enhance the ecological validity of competitive sports psychological research. Key words: sports psychology;instructional self-talk;motivational self-talk;cognitive behavior;movement performance |