Paper 2: Confidence Flashcards
What are the three forms of confidence?
- Self-confidence
- Sports confidence
- Self-efficacy
What is self-confidence?
Self-confidence can be defined as the belief that an individual has in their own abilities
What is sports confidence?
Sports confidence is the belief that an individual has concerning their ability to be successful when faced with certain situations
What is self-efficacy
Self-efficacy is the belief that an individual has concerning their ability to be successful when faced with certain situations.
Self-efficacy is a situation-specific form of sports confidence.
What are the characteristics of self-confidence, self-efficacy, and self-esteem?
- Strong decision making
- Feeling of control
- Enjoyment of the sport
- High focus
- Positive thinking
- Feeling of calmness
- High levels of effort
What is Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy?
Bandura suggested that there are four main factors which contribute to an individuals self-efficacy.
- previous performances
- vicarious experience
seeing another successful performance increases self-efficacy - verbal persuasion
- physiological factors
uncontrollable nerves due to increased arousal = lower confidence
increased awareness due to increased arousal = higher confidence
What are the stages of Bandura’s self-efficacy theory?
1) four factors (P,V,V,P)
2) Efficacy expectations
3) Performance level
What does Vealey’s model of sports confidence show?
Vealey’s model demonstrates how sports confidence (consisting of trait and state sports confidence) can be influenced via a number of differing factors
What is trait sports confidence?
Trait sports confidence is the enduring state of the performer, which involves their global belief in performing successfully in sport
What is state sports confidence?
State sports confidence is a form of sports confidence which fluctuates depending on the various situations the performer is faced with.
What is Vealey’s model?
- State sports confidence influences the outcome of skill performance
- It is influenced by trait sports confidence, competitive orientation, and objective sport situation
- this all leads to subjective perceptions of outcome, if they believe the skill to of been successful then this will improve SC trait and competitive orientation, leading to improved SC state.
What is competitive orientation in Vealey’s model?
Competitive orientation concerns how willing the athlete is to attempt to achieve a goal to exhibit competitive success
What is meant by objective sports situation in Vealey’s model?
Objective sports situation refers to the type of skill that the performer will attempt, alongside the situation that the performer finds themselves in.
Benefits of home field advantage?
- more support
- social facilitation
- improved self-efficacy
- negative effect on opposition players
- increases anxiety and arousal levels
- performance falls
Larger the crowd, greater the effect
Negative effects of home field advantage?
- Could increase pressure on home players, leading to choke effect when anxiety increases
- Social inhibition
- Evaluation apprehension
