Effects of boxing on the Mind

Psychology

In this paper I want to look at how the sport of boxing can affect the mind, to look at this I have taken sports psychology to find out what happens when a fighter is going through while training and taking into account all the personal experience of many other fighters, so to do this task I will be taking a survey and asking them about how they feel when they train every day and mainly the effect it has on them when they win or lose a match after months of training. To understand how it really makes a fighter feel I will be administering the Positive and Negative affect scale (PANAS) on many boxers who are on the amateur and professional level. The paper is going to be focusing on how their can be negative and positive affects in the mind especially after a match that can be won or lost in a fight. There are already many psychological benefits in this sport as it has been proven in many papers but I want to do my own work by accessing the Positive and Negative affect scale (PANAS) scale on my own friends who are all boxers, as many of them have been through a lot they will definitely have lots to share and give us an understanding on how they have felt or changed over the years of practicing boxing.

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