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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Sport anxiety"”.
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and competitive sport anxiety in youth
… between socioeconomic status and competitive sport anxiety in youth athletes. The Multidimensional Anxiety Theory served as the conceptual framework for this study. Participants included 62 youth athletes from an affluent and a middle class socioeconomic background defined by average household …
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Gender and performance anxiety in upper secondary dual-career sports programs in Iceland.
Anxiety is experienced by athletes at almost every level of performance and is therefore a common emotional state. The study aimed to examine gender and performance anxiety in upper-secondary dual-career sports programs in Iceland. Previous studies showed that females tend to have more anxiety than …
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Interaction between stress and immunity during a week leading to competition in young athletes
… change over the two weeks and according to the sport anxiety scale, competition stress was relatively low in these peri-pubertal athletes, it is concluded that in the absence of high cortisol levels mucosal immunity is unaffected in young athletes prior to competition.
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The Big Five Personality Traits and Choking Susceptibility
… 2009), comprised of a self-consciousness scale, sport anxiety scale, and coping style scale, was used to measure choking susceptibility. Personality traits were measured using the Big Five Inventory-10. A total of 60 post-secondary students were analysed in this study; 30 were choking susceptible …
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The Influence of Performance Level and Setting on Collegiate Athletes' Motivational Profiles
… profiles of individual collegiate team sport athletes differ across ability levels (High, Middle, and Low) and settings (Team Practice, Competition, and Personal Practice). The athletes task and ego disposition, autonomy, and contextual motivation, were assessed using the Perception of …
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Can psychological attributes predict the playing level of Icelandic footballers four to five years later?
… (PS), mental toughness (MT), and competition anxiety (CA) differed across playing levels, (iii) how gender and playing levels interacted with PS, MT, and CA scores, and (iv) whether PS, MT, CA, and gender could predict playing levels in 2024. Methods: A total of 826 youth Icelandic footballers …
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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
… athletes' levels and interpretations of anxiety, concentration, motivation, and coping resources. Two female collegiate swimmers high in anxiety and low in motivation and coping skills were selected from a participant pool of 53 swimmers, divers, volleyball, and soccer players. Both …
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Performance attributes of talented schoolboy Australian Rules Football players
… Western Australia at the Australian School Sports Council National Football Championships. The selected psychological characteristics were competitive anxiety (trait and state), competitive sport orientation (competitiveness, win and goal orientation) and sport confidence (trait and state). …
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Anxiety and sport : time to ask what rather than why
Approaches to the study of anxiety in sport have tended to rely on the use of questionnaires to assess levels of competitive anxiety. The development of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens et aI., 1982) has according to Jones (1995) led to considerable research investigating the …
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On Making Warriors Out of Worriers: the Management of Trait Anxiety in Competitive Sports
… intensity and directional dimensions of trait anxiety, state anxiety and performance in sport, (2) a detailed exploration of mechanisms mediating observed relationships, using the theory of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) as a framework, and (3), based on the findings of this …
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Developing and Testing an Integrated Model of Choking in Sport
… to test the automatic execution model in a sport context. Beyond this, I was interested in broadening the research paradigm by concentrating on choking as a process. The five inter-related studies contained in this dissertation tested predictors of choking, perceptions of pressure, coping …
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Psychosocial Interventions for the Prevention of Injury in Dance
… suggested could be applied in areas beyond sport. Two studies (Studies 1 and 2) were carried out with the goal to develop interventions, which were tested for their efficacy in the reduction of injuries, in a third study (Study 3). The purpose of Study 1 was to investigate whether …
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Η σύνδεση του κοινωνικού άγχους με αγωνιστικές-αθλητικές δραστηριότητες σε μαθητές δημοτικού σχολείου. Επιπτώσεις και στρατηγικές αντιμετώπισης.
Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή αρχικά εξέτασε κατά πόσο το γνωστικό μοντέλο του κοινωνικού άγχους των Clark και Wells (1995) μπορεί να γενικευθεί σε αθλητικές και αγωνιστικές καταστάσεις που εμπλέκουν προ εφήβους (ηλικίας 11-13 ετών). Στη συνέχεια σχεδιάστηκαν δύο παρεμβάσεις βασισμένες στο εν λόγω …