Some basic skills in gymnastics and their relationship to negative automatic thoughts for students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences

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Nuha Mohsin Dhahi

The purpose of this paper is to preparing a scale of negative automatic thoughts for students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, and identifying the relationship between some basic skills of gymnastics and negative automatic thoughts for students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. The researcher used the descriptive method in the survey method, as it is the most appropriate method for the nature of the research problem and the research community represented the students of the second stage, which numbered (120) students and were chosen by the researcher in a deliberate way, to represent his basic research sample. The exploratory experiment sample was (10) students. One of the most important results reached by the researcher is that: The results showed that there is an inverse relationship between negative automatic thoughts and gymnastics skills, and the reason for the inverse proportion between skills and negative automatic thoughts is the motivation of students. One of the most important recommendations recommended by the researcher is that: Developing and strengthening scientific behaviour to get rid of negative automatic thoughts through the introduction of professors in development courses, and helping students to provide the appropriate educational environment in order to increase positive spontaneous ideas.