Performance Environments (year 2) Flashcards
1
Q
what are the different types of Elite Sport?
A
- Athletes’ highest standard of performance, success at that level and experience gained at that level
- Semi-elite: Highest participation below top standard in their sport.
- Competitive-elite: Regularly compete at the highest level in their sport but have not had any success at that level.
- Successful-elite: Compete at the highest level and have experienced some infrequent success at that standard.
- World-class: Sustained success at the highest level, with repeated wins over prolonged period of time
2
Q
What is The Performance Narrative?
A
- Competition is natural
- Winning is everything
- Discipline, sacrifice and pain expected/accepted to achieve glory
- Failure leads to shame
3
Q
why does this happen?
A
- Individuals are shaped by sociocultural factors (Carless & Douglas, 2013)
- Coaches
- Organising bodies
- Sport Scientists
- Media
- Fans
- Sponsors….
4
Q
What can this lead to?
A
doping
mental health disorders
fatigue
injuries
worsened relations with coach’s and teammates
5
Q
what are the contributing influences?
A
- Striving to meet others’ expectations – cultural, sporting, and family expectations
- Needing success in an achievement-focused world
- Constant comparison to others’ successes
- Identity development
- Power dynamics
- Food consumption and weight perceived to help “perform better”
- Body surveillance
- Body feedback
6
Q
what are the influential factors (within sport)
A
- Identify development
- Constant evaluation
- Bullying
- Mistreatment
- Injury
- Declining performance
- Stigma of Mental Health Illness in elite sport
7
Q
influences of doping?
A
- Resistance to/influence by social norms
- Moral stance
- Perceptions of others
- Importance of pleasing others/expectations
- Identity/self-control
- Knowledge
- Consequences
8
Q
Influence of the environment?: requirements to stay in sports?
A
Funding
Can’t accept defeat
Life contracts
Goal
Pressure
Selection recovery
performance targets
9
Q
Influence of the environment?: Suffering an injury push athletes over edge?
A
Psychological Consequences
10
Q
Influence of the environment?: Pressure from those around them?
A
Coaches
Peers
11
Q
Classification Controversy
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- Classification – aim is to ensure performance rather than a mismatch of impairment results in the sporting results
- Experience of classification in sport is extremely intrusive and challenging (Howe, 2008; Peers, 2012)
- Athletes’ have a lack of faith in the classification system
- …Many are aware that people “cheat” the system
12
Q
Consequences – for parents and athletes
A
- Managing the power differential – feel they HAVE to behave in specific ways
- Reinforce or encourage engagement with abusive practices
- Positively respond to the fulfilment of the “win at all costs” mentality
- Injuries – physical and psychological
- Feelings of guilt and worry
