As a branch of psychology, sports psychology is a discipline that studies people's psychological phenomena and their occurrence and development laws under the special conditions of sports activities. Specifically, sports psychology is a science that studies cognition, emotion and behavior in sports situations? .
The main purpose of sports psychology research is to improve the educational effect, and the main objects of research are different. The main research purpose of sports psychology is to improve the effect of pedagogy, and the main research objects are students, including teachers. With the continuous development of sports, the differentiation of sports has become increasingly prominent.
Scholars divide sports into three areas, namely, physical education, competitive sports and mass fitness. The vigorous development of these three fields has promoted the continuous differentiation of sports psychology. Since the mid-1980s, traditional sports psychology has expanded related research fields besides sports achievements, and the most noteworthy research fields include physiological psychology and sports psychology.