The Effects of Esports on Sport-Confidence and Imagery in Athletes

<p>With the growing popularity of esports, athletes may be able to experience potential cognitive and performance-related benefits as a result of watching others play esports. In the current study, student athletes were randomly assigned to watch a sport esport video or a control esport video and then completed measures of sport-confidence and imagery. It was predicted that participants in the sport esport video group would score higher than the control esport video group in the cognitive efficiency and resilience aspects of sport-confidence, as well as the cognitive general, motivational general-mastery, and motivational general-arousal domains of imagery. The overall results did not support these hypotheses, with the means between groups not statistically differing. Nevertheless, future directions regarding video game use and athletic performance are discussed.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts - Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Mahon, Kelton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Kyle Conlon
• Dr. Lauren Brewer
• Dr. Linda Bobo

• esports
• athletes
• sport-confidence
• imagery
• observational learning
• Psychology
• Sports Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/478

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.sfasu.edu:etds-1508