Confidence In Sport Flashcards
What is confidence?
A belief in the ability to master a task.
What do people with confidence tend to do?
Try harder and take more risks.
Show approach behaviour.
More likely to win.
What does confidence depend on?
Interaction: interaction of experience, personality and the situation.
What are the two types of confidence?
Trait
State
What is trait confidence?
A belief in the ability to do well in a range of sports.
What is state confidence?
A belief in the ability to master a specific sporting moment.
What are the characteristics of trait confidence?
Shown in most situations Enduring Stable Innate Long-term Consistent
What are the characteristics of state confidence?
Specific situation Temporary Vary depending on the interaction of the influence of experience and personality. Learned Changeable
What did Vealey suggest?
Confidence gained in one area of sport could be used to improve confidence in a different sporting activity.
What did Vealey do?
Create the model of sports confidence
What does the model of sports confidence use?
Vealey used the idea of trait confidence (rate their chances of doing well in a range of sports), and the idea of state confidence (rate their chances of doing well in a specific situation).
These two combine to produce a level of confidence in an objective sporting situation.
What is objective sporting situation?
The performance takes into account the situation in which the task is being undertaken.
What is the competitive orientation?
The degree to which a performer is drawn to challenging situations.
What is self-efficacy?
A belief in the ability to master a specific sporting situation.
When does self-esteem occur?
As a result of increased confidence, when the performer experiences a sense of satisfaction and inner pride from success.
The willingness to compete and persist with the activity is increased.
What does self-efficacy affect?
The confidence of both individual players and those players in teams.
What are the factors affecting self-efficacy?
Performance accomplishments
Vicarious experience
Verbal persuasion
Emotional arousal
What are performance accomplishments?
What you have achieved already
What’s an example of performance accomplishments?
A high jumper in an athletics meet where the bar is at 1m 20 would feel very confident in clearing that height if she has done 1m 30 in training in the past week.
How can performance accomplishments be enhanced?
If the players not only achieved the win but enjoyed the experience too.
What are vicarious experience?
Seeing others do the task
What’s an example of vicarious experiences?
In gymnastics watching a fellow gymnast do a vault that has been practiced in training may give the watching gymnast the confidence to go and do the vault themselves.
What makes vicarious experiences better?
If the model is of a similar ability
What is verbal persuasion?
Encouragement from others
What’s an example of verbal persuasion?
Praise from others such as the coach, fellow players or spectators gives a player a real incentive and confidence to repeat the successful attempt.
What makes encouragement more significant?
Encouragement from others is even more significant if it comes from those who are held in high esteem, such as family or the coach.
What is emotion arousal?
A perception of the effects of anxiety on performance.
What’s an example of emotional arousal?
‘What if we lose it now? We are so close!’
The better judgment or perception of that situation would be…
‘We’ve got this now, only a minute to go’.
How do you improve confidence?
Control arousal with relaxation or stress management techniques.
Give an accurate demonstration.
Point out past successful performances.
Give support and encouragement
Allow success during training by setting tasks within the capability of the performer.
Set attainable goals
Attribute any success achieved to the athletes ability.
The coach or player may use the technique of mental practice to help the performer go over a routine or sequence in the mind.
