Motocross racing is a seldom-researched popular extreme sport. This field research aimed to investigate feeling states, perceived arousal, anxiety, and negative and positive affect in the anticipatory and recovery race periods and their relationship to expected and perceived performance. Twenty Motocross racers completed psychometric scales before and after a national championship race. Results revealed that objective performance was unrelated to psychological measures. Arousal, anxiety, and positive affect were lower after the race. Expected performance was unrelated to postrace measures. Still, perceived performance correlated significantly with the feeling state, anxiety, and positive affect after the race and the feeling state before the race. Furthermore, racers who performed as expected or better showed improved feeling states after the race compared with those who did worse than expected. The core affect of the latter group declined. This research on psychological states during Motocross races could motivate new initiatives for future studies.

越野摩托车比赛是一项很少被研究的流行极限运动。这项实地研究旨在调查预期和恢复比赛期间的感觉状态、感知唤醒、焦虑、消极和积极影响及其与预期和感知表现的关系。二十名越野摩托车赛车手在全国冠军赛前后完成了心理测量量表。结果显示，客观表现与心理测量无关。赛后，觉醒、焦虑和积极情绪有所降低。预期表现与赛后措施无关。尽管如此，感知的表现与赛后的感觉状态、焦虑和积极情绪以及赛前的感觉状态显着相关。此外，与表现低于预期的选手相比，表现符合预期或更好的选手在赛后表现出更好的感觉状态。后者的核心影响力有所下降。这项关于越野摩托车比赛期间心理状态的研究可能会激发未来研究的新举措。