Introduction and purpose: and emotional factors of a person while performing sports activities. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to determine and compare the profile of the psychological skills of the national youth and adult boxing team of Iran.

Methodology: This article is part of applied research, descriptive type and comparative causal method. In order to study this article, two parts of the library (checking documents, books, articles and theses) and the field (distribution of the OMSAT-3 questionnaire) were used. The reliability of this questionnaire was reported to be above 0.9 in all factors. The statistical population of the research was 35 people who participated in the boxing camp of the country's national team in 2012, of which 15 people were at the adult level and 20 people were at the youth level. With the average age of youth and adults respectively 17.43 and 22.18, all these people were selected as samples. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation and graph) were used in the inferential statistics section (multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) using spss version 23 software (p<0.05).

Findings: The results of comparing the psychological skills profile of the national youth and adult boxing team did not show any significant difference in any of the components (p<0.004)

Conclusion: To reach high levels of sports, athletes need to have favorable psychological characteristics.