Goal-directed self-talk used to self-regulate in male basketball competitions
| Autor: | Yago Ramis, Nikos Comoutos, Miquel Torregrossa, Cristina Hernando-Gimeno, Alexander T. Latinjak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male
Competitive Behavior Basketball Adolescent Applied psychology 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Athletic Performance Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Motivation Self-management biology Athletes ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Cognition 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification Sport psychology Psychology Goals Intrapersonal communication |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sports Sciences. 37:1429-1433 |
| ISSN: | 1466-447X 0264-0414 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02640414.2018.1561967 |
| Popis: | This study examined how goal-directed self-talk may help basketball players to self-regulate in stereotypical competitive situations: seconds before a challenging game, while clearly winning or clearly losing, and at the close of a tight game. Participants were recruited in groups of three to four, until preliminary inspection of the data indicated that data saturation was reached. In the end, 34 basketball players voluntarily took part in individual interviews, writing up to three self-instructions they had used in each of the four competitive situations to self-regulate. Content analyses revealed that self-talk in competitive basketball situations serves cognitive functions (e.g., regulating cognition and behaviour), motivational functions (e.g., promoting mastery goals) and emotion and activation-regulating functions (e.g., creating activated states). More specifically, the results also indicated that athletes' self-talk may serve functions specific to the psychological demands experienced in each situation. It is argued that knowing how athletes counsel themselves, could prove important for applied sport psychologists to design psychological skill training. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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