Sports Midterm Chapter 14: Self Confidence

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• Self confidence

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o The belief that one can successfully perform a desired behavior

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• Trait self confidence

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o The belief or degree of certainty an athlete usually possesses about his/her ability to be successful in sport

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• State self confidence

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o Belief at a particular moment about the athlete’s ability to be successful in sport

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• Self-fulfilling prophecy

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o Mere fact that one expects something to happen causes it to happen
o Affects confidence

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• To improve confidence

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o Practice and prepare physically, mentally, with technical skills
 Successful behavior helps increase levels of confidence
o Act confidently
o Think confidently
o Use imagery
o Optimal physical conditioning
o Goal-mapping
 Short-term and long-term goals
o Ask “are you thinking in a way that will give you the greatest success”
o Develop an optimistic explanatory style
 Permanence
• Degree to which an athlete feels an event will repeat itself
 Pervasiveness
• Degree to which an athlete feels that a particular experience will generalize to other experiences in an athlete’s life
 Personalization
• Degree to which an athlete sees himself as the primary causal agent in events

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• Hot hand

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o Momentum theory of performance

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• Person cues

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o Expectations based on gender, race, body size

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• Performance information

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o Expectations based on past accomplishments, skill tests

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• Self-efficacy

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o The perception of one’s ability to perform a task successfully
o Situation-specific form of self-confidence

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• Vicarious experiences (modeling)

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o Athletes gain confidence by watching other skilled athletes complete difficult tasks
o Modeling is a four-stage process
 Attention
 Retention
 Motor reproduction
 Motivation