Confidence Flashcards
What is confidence
athletes level of belief in skills and ability when referring to their sport
Trait like confidence
natural, what your like, typical level of belief ‘im generally confident player’
State like confidence
situation specific, changeable due to enviro ‘not confident for the weekend’
benefits of being confident
- Have positive emotion – negative emotions can be seen as energising and motivating and can be learnt from, more likely to remain calm and relaxed
- Facilitates concentration – focus on task in hand
- Goal setting – confident athletes set hard goals to challenge themselves.
- Increase effort – low confidence = don’t believe they have the skills to put in effort
- Performance – can increase if confident
types of confidence
- Physical skills
- Psychological skills –
- Perceptual skills
- Physical training and fitness
- Learning potential
what are physical skills
how well can you perform skills, how much belief do you have
what are psychological skills
how well can you talk positive, visualise success
what are perceptual skills
how well can you make decisions, adapt to situation
what are physical training and fitness
how well do you train and your fitness levels
what are learning potential
how well can you improve and believe you can
sources of confidence
mastery
coaches
environmental comfort (feel good there )
social support (others having your back )
situation favourableness (it goes your way)
vicarious experience
innate factors ( confidence in own character)
robust sports confidence
– set of enduring and malleable beliefs that protect against the ongoing psychological and environmental challenges associated with
competitive sport
robust self confidence characteristics
multidimensional (many types)
mailable (bounce back )
durable (long lasting)
developable (can be worked on)
protective (act as a buffer)
strong set of beliefs (underlying beliefs)
