The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of sports counseling on athletes` emotion and self-confidence under sport injury rehabilitation. We selected twenty-four South Korean baseball players diagnosed with at least four-week sport injuries and randomly assigned them into a treatment-as-usual (TAU) control, sport psychology skills training (PST) experimental group, or PST plus sports counseling (SC) experimental group. We found that cognitive and somatic anxiety scores were significantly lower for the SC group than for the other two groups at post-test, whereas self-confidence was greater for the SC group compared to the other groups, as the Profile of Mood States, Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, and modified Sources of Sport-Confidence Questionnaire measure. Results suggest that when we provide athletes under sport injury rehabilitation with sports counseling as well as sport psychology skills training, they feel more emotionally supported and have enhanced selfconfidence. In addition, we found the scores of the Profile of Mood States and modified Sources of Sport-Confidence Questionnaire to be significantly higher at post- and follow-up tests than the pre-test for all three groups, without statistically significant differences among the groups.
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