Confidence and Self Efficacy

Question 1

What is sports confidence?

Answer 1

General disposition which is stable and global

How someone feels about their abilities

Question 2

What is self efficacy?

Answer 2

A specific type of self confidence that is unstable

How sure someone is of their competence in a task specific skill

Question 3

What behaviour do people with high self efficacy tend to approach?

Answer 3

Approach behaviour

Question 4

What behaviour do people with low self efficacy tend to approach?

Answer 4

Avoidance behaviour

Question 5

What are the positive impacts of a high sports confidence?

Answer 5

Increased quality of performance, success, participation and persistence
Increased participation from expectation of success-motivation
Increased self esteem from experiencing success

Question 6

What is Vealey’s model of sports confidence?

Answer 6

The level of confidence a performer feels as they approach a sports performance
The effects of their evaluation of the outcome on future performance

Question 7

What are the 5 terms in Vealey’s model?

Answer 7

Trait sports confidence 
Competitive orientation 
Objective sports situation
State sports confidence
Subjective perceptions of outcome

Question 8

Define trait sports confidence

Answer 8

An individuals innate, natural belief in their general sporting ability

Question 9

Define competitive orientation

Answer 9

How prepared an individual is to compete, and types of goal that they have set
(Performance or product/outcome)

Question 10

Define objective sports situation

Answer 10

The nature of the task that is to be performed

Question 11

Define state sports confidence

Answer 11

An individuals (unstable and unchangeable) belief in their ability to be successful at a particular time

Question 12

Define subjective perceptions of outcome

Answer 12

The extent to which a performer believes that their performance was successful

Question 13

What is the performers state sports confidence dependent on when a performer approaches a sports performance?

Answer 13

Their pre-existing level of trait sports confidence
The nature of their task (objective sport situation)
Their competitive orientation

Question 14

What is Bandura’s theory of self efficacy?

Answer 14

Suggests that a performer’s level of self efficacy (task specific confidence) depends on 4 factors

Question 15

What are the 4 factors of Bandura’s theory of self efficacy?

Answer 15

Performance accomplishments
Vicarious experiences
Verbal persuasion
Emotional arousal

Question 16

Define performance accomplishments

Answer 16

Previous successes that a performer has had

If a performer is reminded of previous mastery of tasks, self efficacy increases

Question 17

Define vicarious experiences

Answer 17

Watching others of equal ability succeeding at the task

If a performer is shown an accurate demo, self efficacy increases

Question 18

Define verbal persuasion

Answer 18

Being convinced that they have the ability to be successful at the task
Positive talk from the coach increases self efficacy. Experienced performers can use positive self talk, to persuade themselves

Question 19

Define emotional arousal

Answer 19

The performer’s perception of their physiological and psychological state
If a performer can view their heightened arousal as readiness for performance, efficacy will increase