Mental Champion Factors in Disabilities Athletes Achieving Achievements: Phenomenological Studies at National Paralympic Committee Indonesia

Indonesia has a number of people with disabilities who work as professional national athletes that achieve in the international arena and the number is increasing from year to year, but pandemic era greatly affects for achieving achievement of the national athletes, especially in terms of psychological well-being, mental health, physical health, so that performance and achievement have greatly decreased. This study uses a multidimensional factors point of view by using literature review to determine a personal factors of champion mentality so that it can play a role in achieving achievement of national disabilities athletes during the pandemic era at the Indonesian National Paralympic Committee (NPCI) which is explained from internal (intrapersonal) variables and variables interpersonal to behave [14]. The results of the literature review also show that research on achieving achievement in para (disabilities) national athletes is concentrated in the individual context of a champion mentality person. The champion mentality mechanism may be different in the situation in the current pandemic era from “high status professional athlete performance” to the performance standards of Indonesian professional athletes. Practically, the urgency of this research is related to efforts to breaking down factors of a champion mentality in Indonesia national disabilities athletes to be able to achieving achievement and compete at the world level during the pandemic era.