The Positive and Negative News Coverage Released by the Media that Influenced the Psychology of the Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/isphe-18.2018.40How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sports news, the positive news coverage, the negative news coverage, mental toughness.
- Abstract
The development and the performance of athletes need to be disclosed to the society in general, through mass media though uncontrolled news may give negative side effect which is contra productive for the sports coaching, including mental defectiveness of an athlete. This study is to examine The positive and negative news coverage released by media that psychologically influenced athletes'. The participants were athletes who are from Central java, a total of 10 athletes, who are informed in mass media. They are in potential ages with national level achievement. They are experienced in their own expertise of sport within more of 7 years. They are in progress doing training in the training center basecamp and live in dormitory. The data were collected from interview. The analysis of data used qualitative analysis. Mass media has an important role for an athlete as a constructive criticism should be accepted as reality. Criticism on the media are helpful in improving her weakness. Athletes actually feel delighted when media covers them. The news in media can boost athletes motivation and popularity. Positive news covered in mass media makes them feel proud. News covering the weaknesses of athletes can bring about self-reflection and self-improvement.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Heny Setyawati AU - Tandiyo Rahayu PY - 2018/05 DA - 2018/05 TI - The Positive and Negative News Coverage Released by the Media that Influenced the Psychology of the Students BT - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Public Health and Education 2018 (ISPHE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 172 EP - 176 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/isphe-18.2018.40 DO - 10.2991/isphe-18.2018.40 ID - Setyawati2018/05 ER -