Abstract: Sports students' psychological quality before employment in normal universities is a new research problem in of sports field. This paper, on the basis of the relevant theoretical researches, conducts a tentative analysis on the cognitive structure sports students' psychological quality, before employment, finding that the cognitive structure of such students' psychological quality is composed of self-confidence, emotion control ability and career values. The paper further analyzes the students' cognitive level and the inner link of the whole structure, concluding that such groups of students indicate very ordinary level of psychological quality and the internal influence path coefficient in all dimensions of the whole structure are confidence (0.42), emotion control ability (0.67), occupation values (0.39) according to the results of empirical research. It is therefore suggested in the paper that such students' cognitive level of psychological quality structure should be actively and selectively improved.

Key words: sports students in normal universities, psychological quality structure, model