Self-Confidence Flashcards
What is Self-Confidence?
The Belief that you can successfully perform a desired behavior.
State Self Confidence
The Degree of certainty that individuals have a particular moment of their ability to succeed. (More Unstable)
Trait Self confidence
The degree of certainty individuals usually have about their ability to succeed. (More Stable)
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Expecting something to happen actually helps cause it to happen
Negative self-fulfilling prophecy
This is the psychological barrier whereby the expectation of failure leads to actual failure.
What are the benefits of self-confidence?
Arouses positive emotions
Facilitates concentration
Affects the setting and pursuit of challenging goals
Increases Effort
Affects game strategies
Affects psychological momentum
Affects performance
Arouses positive emotions
Feel Confident -> More likely to remain calm/relaxed under pressure
Facilitates concentration
Confident -> Focus on task
Not Confident -> Worry about how you are performing
What is the Self Efficacy Theory?
The perception of one’s ability to perform a task successfully.
What are the main premises of the self efficacy theory?
Affects an athletes choice of activities, level of effort, and persistence
It generalizes other similar skills and situations
High Self Efficacy -> are more likely to set challenging goals
What are the Six main sources of self-efficacy?
Performance accomplishments
Vicarious Experiences
Verbal Persuasion
Imaginal Experience
Physiological States
Emotional Stress
Performance Accomplishments
Most dependable source of self-efficacy because it is based on one’s master experiences
Vicarious Experiences
Seeing others modeling (or demonstrating) a skill influences efficacy. Best understood through a 4 stage process.
What is the 4 stage modeling process?
Attention
Retention
Motor Reproduction
Motivation
Attention
Paying attention to key points in the activity several times
Retention
Having to be committed to retain the skills to memory
Motor reproduction
Learning how to coordinate their muscles actions with their thoughts
Motivation
This final stage affects all other stages, must be motivated to do all other three.
Verbal Persuasion
Persuasive techniques can improve self efficacy, self talking can also enhance it.
Imaginal Experiences
Imaging oneself or others behaving in future situations can generate belief about personal efficacy/lack of efficacy.
Physiological States
Influences self efficacy when they are associated with aversive physiological arousal.
Emotional States
Emotional states, or moods, are another source of efficacy information.
What is Collective (team) self efficacy?
The belief or perception shared by members of the team regarding the capabilities of their teammates
What are some ways that we can build self confidence?
Focus on performance accomplishments
Acting confident
Responding with confidence
Thinking confidently
Using imagery
Using goal mapping
Optimizing physical conditioning and training
Preparing
Fostering social climate
Focusing on performance accomplisments
The most powerful way to build confidence
Acting Confidently
The more confident an athlete acts - the more likely they are to feel confident
Thinking confidently
Focus on instruction/ motivations self talk and good performance, disregard negative thoughts
Use Imagery
Imagine yourself successfully performing a skill you have never done or have had difficulty executing
Goal Mapping
Use a personalized goal achieving plan
Optimizing physical condition and training
Training and physical states are keys to confidence
Preparing
develop performance plans and pre competitive routines
fostering social climate
Leadership style, types of goals, social support network, and social feedback sources, availability and characteristics of models all influence confidence
What are the three primary self regulatory tools recommended by sports to enhance confidence
Self talk, imagery, goal mapping
