Lecture 7 Resilience

Question 1

Define resilience by Fletcher and Sarkar

Answer 1

Resilience is the ability to use personal qualities to withstand pressure

2 main considerations are that there is an experience of adversity or risk and attainment of positive outcomes

Question 2

Name each part of the grounded theory of resilience

Answer 2

Stressors
Leads to challenge appraisal
Characteristics that help develop challenge appraisal are: focus perceived social support, confidence, positive personality p, motivation.
When present these lead to facilitative responses and therefore optimal performance

Question 3

Explain what each of the 5 factors are within the grounded theory

Answer 3

PP: openness to new experiences, innovative, emotionally stable
Motivation: passion for the sport, achieving incremental approach goals, social recognition
Confidence: multifaceted preparation experience self awareness
Focus: focus on self and process
Perceived: family coaches support staff

Question 4

What is team resilience generally characterised by

Answer 4

Caring relationships 
Effective team work 
Trust 
Cohesion 
Collective efficiacy 
Collectively embracing challenge

Question 5

Definition of team resilience

Answer 5

A dynamic psychosocial process which protects a group of individuals from the potential negative effect of stressors they collectively encounter. Where they use individual and collective resources to positively adapt when experiencing adversity

Question 6

What are the 4 general dimensions of team resilience

Answer 6

Group structure: group norms and values
Mastery approaches: effective behavioural responses
Social capital’ group identity
Collective efficacy: group cohesion

Question 7

how do we develop resilience

Answer 7

Environmental factors - what challenge and support do we give
individual factors - the 5 from meta cognition
try and therefore develop and facilitative environment

Question 8

4 areas in which resilience may occur

Answer 8

Facilitative environment - high support high challenge
comfortable - low challenge high support
unrelenting - high challenge low support
stagnent - low challenge low support .

Question 9

Define pressure inaurment training

Answer 9

Stress process- apply demand - let appraisal occur - good response = more demand and increase appraisal significance
bad response = increase learning and support