¹Ray Jay T. Dipasupil, ²Darwin D. Ofrin

¹Department of Education, Recto Memorial National High School, Tiaong, Quezon Province, Philippines

²Laguna State Polytechnic University-San Pablo City Campus, Del Remedio, San Pablo City, Laguna Philippines

DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijsshmr.2024.v3i6n12

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ABSTRACT

Sound mind and body is an important factor for greater winning opportunities for student-athletes in participating to school-initiated, district level, division, regional and up to national level sports competition. In order to come up with an appropriate sports training program, the researcher focused the study on the challenges being faced by the studentathletes on personal health particularly to mental, physical and emotional health and how do they cope with it. The study used descriptiv e research design participated by one hundred student-athletes from Recto Memorial National High School purposively chosen and enrolled during 2023-2024 school year. Based on the tallied responses, equal number of male and female studentathletes are the respondents who are in the age bracket of 14-15 and are Grade 8 students. As revealed, student-athletes did not have any physical challenges when participating in sports but underscores a significant emotional struggle which is handling pressure during competitions, which adversely affects athletic performance. They are also challenged emotionally that the findings highlight prevalent issue of nervousness and worry among participants during sports activities. Similarly, they are challenged emotiona lly that the prevalence of nervousness suggests underlying mental stressors impacting their performance. Further, it is depicted that there is no significant correlation between challenges of student-athletes in sports participation and studentathletes’ achievement. Finally, the correlation between coping mechanisms and student-athletes’ achievement are significantly related to each other as well.

KEYWORDS:

Coping Mechanisms, Emotional Health, Mental Health, Physical Health

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