Analysis of the Relationship between Competitive Psychological Regulation Strategies and Performance in Badminton Athletes

Abstract

As a high-intensity, fast-reacting, and continuous confrontation sport, badminton places significant demands on athletes’ psychological qualities and regulation abilities. Psychological regulation, as a core concept in sports psychology, influences athletes’ attention allocation, emotional stability, and motor execution through multidimensional means, including cognition, emotion, and behavior, thereby directly affecting competitive performance. Based on a systematic review of the concept and classification of psychological regulation and an analysis of the psychological characteristics of badminton athletes, this study explores the application patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral regulation strategies and constructs a linkage model between psychological regulation strategies and competitive performance. The findings indicate that different strategies exert differentiated and synergistic effects on technical execution, maintenance of psychological state, and optimization of strategy combinations, providing theoretical support for the scientific application of psychological regulation. This study not only enriches the theoretical understanding of psychological regulation in badminton athletes within sports psychology but also offers innovative references for athletes’ psychological training and enhancement of competitive performance.