The impact of psychological pollution and its relationship to students' learning of accurate shuttlecock serve reception

Abstract

Abstract

          This research examines the relationship between psychological pollution and serve reception accuracy in badminton among second-year students in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. The importance of the research stemmed from the researcher's observation that some students' performance during matches was affected compared to their level in training. This led him to hypothesize that psychological factors, particularly psychological pollution, influence performance accuracy, the researcher adopted a descriptive correlational approach and selected a sample of ten players from the University of Diyala badminton team. Two tests were administered: one to measure psychological pollution, and the other to measure serve reception accuracy. The results showed a significant and inverse correlation between the two variables. It was found that higher levels of psychological pollution among players lead to lower serve reception accuracy, which negatively impacts overall performance in matches, the research concluded that players with higher levels of psychological pollution had less accurate serve reception than their teammates, while players with lower levels of psychological pollution performed better in serve reception. Hence, the researcher recommended focusing on proper psychological preparation for players, conducting serve-receiving drills under match-like conditions, and studying the impact of psychological stress on other skills in badminton.