| dc.description.abstract | This research study was combined both factors
as ‘human factors’ and its impacts on sport performance.
The human factors are relating to the interrelation of social
factors and individual thought and behaviour. The Sri
Lankan explorations, there has been a majority of
explorations of the social dimension and psychology aspect.
But a limited investigation was carried on the relationship
with human factors and sport performance.
The objective of this study was to investigate human
factors and its influence in successful and poor sport
performance across difference development stages of
national level athletes. Twenty five national athletes (N=25)
have taken part in the study sample. The semi-structured
interviews were conducted in order to collect data.
Thematic analysis was used to analysing data and focus on
examining themes within data.
The collected information was preferred into three parts
and eight categories. The research has revealed that the
human factors were contributed to the successful sport
performance and poor sport performance evenly during
initiation, development, mastery phases and maintenance
stages. The impact of parents, family, coach, peers,
siblings and other factors was studied among difference
life stages. The results were presented that the human
factorsplay a different role in the difference development
stages. The instance supportive family and parents were
the most important factors to National athletes’ successful
sport performance on the initiation stage, where the lack
of family and coach support to be a more important factor
to National athlete’s poor sport performance on the
maintenance stage. The research was recommended on
future research and implication are given. | |
