CONSISTENCIA Y FLUCTUACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS DE ÁNIMO EN UN EQUIPO DE FÚTBOL PROFESIONAL

CONSISTENCIA Y FLUCTUACIÓN DE LOS ESTADOS DE ÁNIMO EN UN EQUIPO DE FÚTBOL PROFESIONAL

DURANTE UNA COMPETICIÓN DE PLAY OFF1

Ricardo de la Vega Marcos,* Roberto Ruiz Barquín,* Alexandre García-Mas, **

Glòria Balagué, *** Aurelio Olmedilla Zafra**** y Sagrario del Valle Díaz*****

Revista de Psicología del Deporte 2008. Vol. 17, núm. 2 pp. 241-251 ISSN: 1132-239X

Correspondencia: Ricardo de la Vega Marcos. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Facultad de Educación.

Departamento de Educación Física, Deporte y Motricidad Humana. Carretera de Colmenar Viejo Km. 15 s/n. 28049

Madrid. E-mail: [e-mail]

1 Este trabajo ha sido realizado, en parte, gracias a la ayuda del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España) SEJ2007-64528/PSIC.

* Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

** Universitat de les Illes Balears.

*** University of Illinois at Chicago

**** Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia.

***** Universidad de Castilla la Mancha.

CONSISTENCY AND FLUCTUATION OF MOOD STATES IN A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM DURING A

PLAY-OFF

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to describe a football team's mood processes during competitions through the administration of specific measures. A second division (level B) Spanish football team (Rayo Vallecano SAD, Madrid, Spain) was evaluated by means of the short Spanish version (15 items, Fuentes, García-Merita, Meliá and Balaguer, 1995) of the Profile of Mood State (POMS, MacNair, Lorr and Droppelmann, 1971), four times during the play-off phase (after the end of the regular season) to move on to a higher level during the 2006-07 Spanish Professional Soccer League season (level 2A) The results showed the absence of significant differences in the scores on the POMS' five scales (Depression, Vigour, Anger, Fatigue and Tension) recorded before the four play-off matches, meaning the existence of a consistency in the team's mood states during the whole phase of the play-off and the absence of significant fluctuations in mood medium lasting processes. Despite that, the POMS' graphic averages displayed several patterns related to different scales. We suggest that the proposed method is useful in studying athletes' and teams' cognitive-emotional processes during specific types of ongoing competitions, as they ensure high ecological validity and provide information for more effective interventions tailor-made for teams.