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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Debilitative"”.
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Hit Me Again: A Qualitative Examination of The Lived Experience Of Anger in Mixed Martial Arts
<p>Anger has often been suggested to be debilitative to sport performance (Isberg, 2000). Conversely, Harpold et al. (2011) observed that anger may in fact be a facilitative factor in helping Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters experience optimal performance. Moreover, Woodman et al. (2009) found …
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Community College Students Taking Online Courses: The Student Point-of-View
… on-line courses?, What are facilitative or debilitative dimensions or features that promote or inhibit success in on-line courses?, and, How does the community college infrastructure support students taking web-based courses? The results of the study were grouped into 4 categories: …
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Influence of Outcome Expectancy on Optimisim, Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Confidence in Collegiate Football Players
… Jones, 2003). Whether anxiety is facilitative or debilitative to performance is based on the interpretation of anxiety, also termed direction. Individual levels of optimism and pessimism alter the interpretation of anxiety, with optimists experiencing less debilitative effects of anxiety (Wilson, …
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Students’ Perceptions And Experiences Of Anxiety In An Online Collaborative Project
… learners perceived anxiety to have facilitative, debilitative, and neutral impacts on their participation and performance in the collaborative activity; d) learners used a range of coping strategies in order to manage anxiety, with problem-focused coping being more frequently reported than either …
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Antecedents of Burnout Among Collegiate Tennis Players
Burnout has become to be regarded as a debilitative problem for athletes, but individual differences that may provide a buffer to burnout characteristics have only partially been examined. The purpose of this study was to examine the possible association between optimism, trait confidence, need for …
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The effects of vicarious reinforcement on Type A and Type B children in a competitive situation
… types of effects: 1) facilitative, or 2) debilitative when children coact in a more competitive situation. Since Type A children have been found to engage in more comparison processes and are more competitive, the purpose of the present study was to empirically determine if Type A and Type …
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An Analysis of Psychological Skills Training Programs' Influence on Intercollegiate Female Athletes' Anxiety, Concentration, Motivation, and Coping Resources: A Single-Subject/Qualitative Design
… and concentration disruption levels, and less debilitative interpretations in the somatic and worry subscales ofthe SAS. Concentration disruption direction remained the same. Participant 020 also had a decrease in amotivation and an increase in all three intrinsic motivation subscales (IM-for …
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Can elite male academy players be taught to perform under pressure?
… with factors perceived to be facilitative or debilitative of performance under pressure within academy soccer. The perceptions of pressure, and factors of influence identified within study one were used by academy coaches to inform the design of a contextually specific pressure intervention. …
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The Relationship Between Trait Anxiety, Perfectionism, and Burnout in Collegiate Basketball Players
<p>Burnout has been a debilitative and non-discriminative problem among athletes for years, yet the warning signs that lead to experiencing burnout remain variant and vague. The purpose of this study was to examine the possible relationship and role of prediction that existed between trait anxiety, …
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Exploring experiences of music performance anxiety among music students at a South African tertiary institution
… their perceptions of the facilitative and debilitative nature of the elevated arousal associated with MPA; and what strategies the music students employ to mitigate and/or manage their MPA. Data were collected via an anonymous qualitative online survey with open-ended descriptive questions. …
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Effects of Immediate Knowledge of Results and Test Anxiety on Achievement Test Performance in a College Classroom Setting
… achievement on tests than students having "debilitative" test anxiety, but that the latter would show higher achievement when immediate KR was provided because provision of KR would focus attention on the task. The study also examined whether there were characteristics besides test anxiety …
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An experimental investigation into the efficacy of multicomponent treatment programmes for test-anxious student nurses
… was the SD group, showing reductions on the Debilitative scale of the AAT (p < 0.01), the SUD (p < 0.01) and the AARS (p < 0.05). However, this group expressed less satisfaction with the programme than the PMRT & GI group on the Treatment Evaluation Questionnaire. A subsidiary study compared …
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On Making Warriors Out of Worriers: the Management of Trait Anxiety in Competitive Sports
… in sport. In particular, competitors with debilitative interpretive styles were found to endorse self-directed demands, and awfulising, and exhibited secondary emotional disturbance most frequently associated with somatic and behavioural interpretations. In the final study, a total of 60 …
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Developing and Testing an Integrated Model of Choking in Sport
… HP condition, but the direction (facilitative/debilitative) of somatic A-state and cognitive A-state did not change significantly. Correlation analysis between A-state and performance under pressure was also not significant. In addition, a one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) showed an …
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Investigating the Junior-to-Senior Transition in Sport: Interventions to Support the Transitional Process
… factors that they perceived as facilitative and debilitative towards the transition outcome that had also been recognised in previous studies in the thesis. For example, some of the factor’s athletes perceived to facilitate their transition included social support, focusing on personal …