ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1659102
This article is part of the Research TopicPsychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume VIView all 19 articles
Differences in Judgments on Importance of Performance Psychological Factors in Korean and Chinese Football Experts
Provisionally accepted
Ji-hun Kang1*
Hong-Fu Tang2*- 1Korea National Sport University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 2Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China
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Purpose: This study aimed to assess the importance of performance psychological factors (PPF) among Korean and Chinese football experts (FE) and to identify differences in their judgments regarding PPF. Methods: In this study, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was conducted with 60 participants, including Ph.D. holders in sports psychology with player experience and football coaches with over 10 years of combined experience as players, coaches, and researchers. The standardized scores from the AHP results were used to determine the differences in judgments regarding the importance of PPF between the two countries. Results: First, Korean FE make judgments on the importance of PPF in the order of factors such as game intelligence and fundamentals, and in the subfactors, practical intelligence, anxiety control, and confidence. Second, Chinese FE make judgments on the importance of PPF in the order of factors such as fundamentals and game intelligence, and in the subfactors, practical intelligence, confidence, and fighting spirit. Third, PPF judged by Korean FE range from confidence (.050), which is the closest, to pressure control (.792), which is the farthest. PPF judged by Chinese FE range from analyzing abilities (.106), the closest, to fighting spirit (.919), the farthest. Conclusions: The differences in judgments regarding the importance of PPF in Korean and Chinese FE may reflect varying evaluations of psychological factors influenced by each country's football culture. Overall, this study can serve as a resource for mutual understanding and communication between the two countries.
Keywords: Football, performance psychological factors, Cross-culture psychology, Analytic hierarchy process, koreaand china
Received: 03 Jul 2025; Accepted: 01 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kang and Tang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Ji-hun Kang, Korea National Sport University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Hong-Fu Tang, Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China
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