"That 21st Century Trend Of E-Sports Gaming"
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Psychologist adapting their skills in the e-sports industry
JULY 12, 2025
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Sport psychologist roles are to help increase and maintain performance of the team and individual. They use their study and apply what they know.
They can identify concerns that an individual may inhibit with their performance. An example would be links with somatic feedback, which are physiological symptoms from arousal levels. Which could affect their concentration levels making them not perform at their optimal.
The growing trend of E-sports has grown over the last decades that another particular team such as dignitas hired a sports psychologist to help improve team performance levels.
Many professional teams have a sports psychologist as part of their teams.
Sport psychologist can understand what happens during their performance; from there they can potentially make changes to enhance their thought process to increase performance. They have the right skill sets to undertake the challenges faced.
There is a method which sport psychologist can transfer which could potentially identify why the performer anxiety levels rise. This is a method called biofeedback. This works by the use of a heart rate monitor attached to the cyber athlete, recording their palpitations when performing in a game. A performer can look calm in the outside but internally what is happening could be different.
Using the information gathered, the sport psychologist can use the situation where the performer was feeling a lot of stress and manipulate the environment in practices and work on it.
The psychologist can suggest to the coach to same situation practising when facing it again on it so when it comes to facing that challenge they would not be afraid. For example a 1 v 5 and you are the only one alive in your team.
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JULY 12, 2025
There will be a need for sports psychologist in the future for eSports. This is because cyber athletes are becoming more skilled at competitive gaming. Like the Olympic motto, faster, higher stronger, cyberathletes are getting faster and quicker at what they can do.
So as the industry grows in ‘succession’, sport psychologist will also emerge, especially for professional teams and amateur teams coming in the ranks to reach the top level.
The use of sport psychologist will help improve cyber athletes to perform better, according to Feltz and Landerz (1983) sport is not all physical but a mental game too, mental rehearsal is better than physical practice alone. The individual must be resilient to overcome tough stressful situations.
Sports psychologist transferring into the gaming industry to help gamers is unheard of, so are their actually worth it, So what can a sport psychologist teach?
Their knowledge that they know can be applied within gaming such as techniques to overcome state anxiety when stakes are high. State anxiety is unstable emotions which happen in a situation.
As mentioned by Dr Dominic Micklewright cyber athletes and athletes exhibit the same mood states meaning techniques performed psychologically would also work theoretically. an example of a situation where Jesse "Jeisz" Lee who was "throwing" the game lukas schenke helped him to recognise himself of what to do.
Support teams will work closely together to increase performance output, these are such as mangers, coaches and product development etc. see page
For this reason job role such as sport psychologist in 10 years time would be prepared to transfer in the industry.