confidence and self efficacy

Question 1

what is sports confidence

Answer 1

the belief or degree of certainty individuals possess about their ability to be successful in sport

Question 2

what is self efficacy

Answer 2

the self-confidence we have in specific situations

Question 3

what is the impact of sports confidence on sports performance

Answer 3

more motivated to achieve and will make decisions that have positive outcomes

eg athlete with high sports confidence is more likely to get a better 100m sprint time

Question 4

what is the impact of sports confidence on participation

Answer 4

those with low sports confidence may shy away from activities and avoid situations related to competition

eg high sports confidence will participate with others, no inhibition and team activities

Question 5

what is the impact of sports confidence on self-esteem

Answer 5

high levels of sports confidence will have high self-esteem which helps performance as high arousal needed

eg low sports confidence have low self-esteem and feel not good enough to compete at high level or in team

Question 6

what is self esteem

Answer 6

the feeling of self-worth that determines how valuable and competent we feel

Question 7

what does Vealey’s sport confidence model investigate

Answer 7

the relationship between achievement motivation and competitiveness/self confidence in sport

Question 8

what is a sc trait

Answer 8

enduring, stable, innate and long term

Question 9

what is competitive orientation

Answer 9

existing competitiveness
goals
eg outcome or performance

Question 10

what is sc state

Answer 10

learned, self-efficacy and changeable

Question 11

what does vealey’s model show

Answer 11

-everyone has an existing sc trait and competitive orientation
-sc trait + comp orien = sc state

-sc state dictates behavioural response

-behavioural response dictates subjective outcome

Question 12

what effect does subjective outcome have on future competitions

Answer 12

can change the sc trait and comp orient

-can be bad as confidence can change on controllable factors

Question 13

sources of sports confidence

Answer 13

-styling eg vicarious reinforcement and demo for models
-physical and mental prep
-social reinforcement
-effective leadership
-mastery of skills
-environmental comfort eg fun, space, time and equipment

Question 14

what is Bandura’s theory of self efficacy

Answer 14

self-confidence is specific to particular situation (self-efficacy)

-can vary from situations

Question 15

what are the 4 types of info that effect bandura’s self efficacy

Answer 15

-performance accomplishments

-vicarious experienes

-social persuasion

-emotional arousal

Question 16

what are performance accomplishments

Answer 16

the strongest influencers on self-confidence

eg success raises self-efficacy

success attributed to controllable factors

Question 17

vicarious experiences

Answer 17

what we have observed before
-role models and friends act as success guide

if they were successful we are more likely to have high self-efficacy

Question 18

social persuasion

Answer 18

confidence in situations may inc if we were encouraged to try that activity

depends on persuader
eg coach, family, friend

Question 19

emotional arousal

Answer 19

perception of arousal affects our confidence in situations

strategies to control arousal lead to high self-efficacy

Question 20

relationship between self efficacy judgements and behaviour/performance

Answer 20

higher self-efficacy judgements leads to greater performance