Lecture 6 - Performance Dysfunction 1 Flashcards
What is the important component in performance Dysfcuntion 1?
- Environmental trigger/ stimulus is whats important
- e.g. life-role conflicts (student-athlete)
What did Settles et al (2002) do? What were his methods? - Settle for an athletic identity?
Did a cross sectional study with collegiate athletes. Assessed the extent of their athletic identity. And how much they could seperate their roles as athletes, and as students.
What were Settles et al (2002)’s findings?
- The more clashing their roles were, the more stress their life-role conflict caused
- if roles were in harmony, like their demands and timings didnt clash, less stressful
- the higher the role seperation, the higher their SE
- the higher their athletic identity, the more depressive symptoms they had
Define intra-sender conflict
- Within role conflict
- One person giving you multiple roles to do
- Coach giving you several roles to do, that clash and compete against each other
- One Coach coach saying attack all the time, after saying defend all the time
What are the two types of intra-role conflict?
Intra-sender
Inter-sender
Define inter-sender conflict
Multiple people giving you roles that clash
- one coach saying attack all the time
- one coach saying defend all the time
Define person-role conflict
- When you are given a role, but you dont think you are adequate in fulfilling it
- dont feel you have the chance to useyour specialist skills
- Dont value the role you are given - dont see the point and dont see its importance
For a role to be sucessful, you need to buy into it and see it as significant
Need some autonomy
What things should be taking into account when treating role conflicts ***
if you have a long time vs short time
- check for clinical issues and follow up symptoms
- if you dont have long: focus on the conflict, not performance
- if you have longer: focus on dispositional stuff and schemas
What are the 4 things you should focus on when trying to clairfy someones role?
- Responsibility - what is there role and what are they responsible for?
- Necessary Behaviours - what do they need to be doing to achieve this
- Evaluation - how am i going to be evaluted- need to be evaluated so there is at least some motivation
- Consequences - what will happen if you do/ dont follow this role!
What can changes in your sport/ life cause? In terms of role changes? 3 things it impacts on
schemas
Going up a level, changing teams, getting a new coach etc can alter:
• functioning
•Daily exchanges
•Interact with schemas - going up a level, they go into overdrive
- They are unkown and stressful - you need to change how you behave/ perform
What problems did Debois et al (2012) see in Francine (a french fencer) when she moved to an elite training camp
initially had no issues, or worry/ apprehension was at normal levels
After 3 months - performance started to go wrong • relationship difficulties •Crisis • INjury and stress •Dissatisfaction
How can you treat negative reactions to role change?
- Regular empathic counselling and normalisation works
* solve problems to do with role change, not emotions
Outline Mellalieu et al., 2013 methods - frequency of conflict
Survey of elite/ good level Uk athletes.
Asked them how frequently they had interpersonal conflict at major championships
Outline Mellalieu et al., 2013 findings
58% had conflict with team mates, managers, coaches etc ‘a few times’ during major championships
- it is clearly getting in the way of performance
Who did Mellalieu et al., 2013 show was the most likely person to have conflict with?
- other athletes most common: 43%
- Coach: 38%
- team manager: 30%
