MOOD STATE IN FIGHTING ATHELETES OF THE THAILAND NATIONAL SPORTS UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the Brief Mood Introspection Scale Thai (BMIST) adapted from the Brief Mood Introspection Scale (BMIS) of Mayer and Gaschke and 2) to study the mood state of fighting athletes under the jurisdiction of the Thailand National Sports University (TNSU).The samples used in this research were 160 fighting athletes under the jurisdiction of the Thailand National Sports University (TNSU). The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient (a). The results of the research revealed that the samples consisted of 116 male fighting athletes (72.50%) and 44 female fighting athletes (27.50%) with an average age of 20.19 + 1.64 years old, an average weight of 61.28 + 9.72, an average height of 167.03 + 6.53, and fighting sports experience of 7.79 + 1.63 years. The Brief Mood Introspection Scale Thai (BMIST) was found suitable for use with Thai athletes. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.96 and the reliability of each mood state was between 0.82 - 1.00. Therefore, it was a suitable tool which can be applied to studying the mood state of athletes in any other kinds of sports. In addition, the mood state of fighting athletes under the jurisdiction of the Thailand National Sports University was found that as a whole the level of interpreted positive mood states was in the state they definitely felt, the mean scores of which were 2.45 + 0.78 while as a whole the level of interpreted negative mood states was in the state they definitely did not feel, the mean scores of which were 0.45 + 0.21.