The Fear of failure and its relationship with achievement for the middle distances sprinters of the youth category

Abstract

The researcher dealt with in the first chapter a brief summary of athletics and its position among sports and the most important thing that distinguishes it, and the research problem is given in the following questions: What is the level of psychological preparation (the fear of failure) that middle distances sprinters have for the youth category to overcome the audiences stresses in the case of failure in the race? Is there a relationship between fear of failure and the level of achievement?
The researcher used the descriptive approach with the style of survey. The research sample was represented by young sprinters of the middle distances participating in the championships organized by the Iraqi Athletics Federation. The researcher also codified a scale the fear of failure, but the most important conclusions were a reflective negative relationship between fear of failure and achievement, and the most important The recommendations recommended by the researcher are the necessity of engaging young sprinters in psychological counseling lectures during the preparation periods in order to protect them from thinking about fear of failure and raising their morale.