The level of psychological flow and its relationship to the skill of handling and receiving in handball among the youth of Diyala Club

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in identifying the psychological flow among young handball players and its relationship to the skills of handling and receiving. The researcher used the descriptive approach in the style of correlational relationships. The research community was identified with youth handball players aged 15-18 years for the 2022/2023 sports season in Diyala Governorate, distributed among the districts of the governorate for clubs. The number of them is (6) clubs, and the Diyala Sports Handball Club was chosen as a sample for the research by a random method, and they numbered (18) players. The main experiment was conducted on (15) players, and thus the percentage of members of the research sample was (19.73%). The researcher concluded that the psychological flow among the young players in the Diyala Sports Club in handball was average, and that optimal skill performance requires the player to have a high level of enjoyment of psychological skills according to the pressures of competition among the members of the research sample. The researcher recommends the need to benefit those concerned from the bodies The administrative and trainers of the psychological program, because of its impact on the development of basic skills, and the necessity of having a specialized person (psychological) for each team, especially the national teams, who is responsible and supervising the application of psychological curricula.