摘要：The purpose of present research was to compare the psychological strategies between male and female athletes and individual and team sports. 394 athletes from student Olympiad twelfth completed the test of performance strategies- 2 questionnaire that has stability and consistency above 0.70. The MANOVA analysis revealed that in practice, male athletes were significantly better in goal-setting and attention control compared to female athletes but, females had better emotional control. During competition, male athletes performed better compared to female athletes in automaticity and distractibility. In addition, team players were characterized by higher scores in relaxation skills and attention control in practice and activation and automaticity in competition compared to individual players. So, it is suggested to consider, sports type, practice and competition as effective factors for teaching psychological skills.
