Confidence Flashcards
Self confidence
Persons belief in ability to succeed
Self efficacy
Situation specific self confidence
Performance accomplishments
Past successful experiences
Vicarious experience
Observations of success
Verbal persuasion
Encouraging that you can do it
Emotional arousal
Interpret feelings of arousal positively.
Importance of confidence
Higher confidence = greater resilience (more committed)
Can lead to more approach behaviours
Factors affecting self efficacy
Past performance
Verbal persuasion
Vicarious experience
Physiological/emotional state
Performance accomplishments
The level of prior success you’ve had before in that particular task.
Implications for coaches of self efficacy
Ensure success in training and gradually increase difficulty
Strategies to increase self efficacy
- goal setting (smart)
- imagery
- routine
- cognitive techniques
- performance accomplishments
Social facilitation
Audience
High arousal
Improved performance
(Extroverts, experienced, simple and gross skills)
Social inhibition
Presence of audience inhibits performance
Novices, introverts, fine and complex need great concentration
Evaluation apprehension
Anxiety caused by the fear of being judged by an audience.
