Recall agreement between actual and retrospective reports of competitive anxiety: A comparison of intensity and frequency dimensions
| Autor: | Owen Thomas, Gareth Picknell, Sheldon Hanton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Adult
Male Competitive Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Self-concept Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Anxiety Developmental psychology Interviews as Topic Young Adult medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine media_common biology Recall Athletes Memoria Limits of agreement biology.organism_classification Self Concept Agreement Intensity (physics) Mental Recall Female medicine.symptom Psychology Sports |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sports Sciences. 29:495-508 |
| ISSN: | 1466-447X 0264-0414 |
| Popis: | Using a mixed-method design, we compared athletes' abilities to recall intensity and frequency of competitive anxiety. In Phase 1, performers (n = 35) completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens, Burton, Vealey, Bump, & Smith, 1990) at four pre-competition and four post-competition intervals to compare actual and recalled responses. In Phase 2, follow up interviews (n = 6) explored the perceived mechanisms underpinning the quantitative results. Limits of agreement (Bland & Altman, 1999) analysis on the quantitative data indicated that, compared with intensity, memory for frequency was generally more reliable, and recall ability of this dimension was less biased for symptoms that occurred earlier in the week. Inductive analysis of the qualitative interviews suggested athletes were more attuned to the frequency rather than the intensity of their competitive anxiety symptoms. These findings provide support for the notion that the frequency of symptoms may act as a precursor for increasing anxiety levels and this dimension may be a more accurate reflection of experienced symptoms when recalling emotional accounts. The implications are that researchers and practitioners need to consider frequency in addition to intensity when seeking to manage anxiety responses during the time preceding competition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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