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Sports injury and grief responses: a review

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The study to explore support for the application of a grief response model to the psychological response patterns of injured athletes, stresses the need to produce testable presumptions. The models are used to evaluate the psychological response patterns of injured performers, ascertain the extent to which athletes may move between phases, and find the effect of moderating variables on the emotional responses to injury, and the success of rehabilitation. There is also a need to probe the psychological responses of injured athlete and measure affective responses.

Injuries, Rehabilitation, Loss (Psychology)

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The interactive effects of intensity and direction of cognitive and somatic anxiety and self-confidence upon performance

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A study of 45 female Welsh netball athletes did not show the expected direct link between direction of competitive state anxiety and performance, but did otherwise support catastrophe model predictions. Cognitive anxiety proved detrimental only when paired with high levels of physiological arousal, and results supported the hypothesis that higher self-confidence would lead the athletes to perceive their anxiety as more facilitative. Differences from prior results may reflect gender, age, or cultural variances.

Psychological aspects, Research, Women athletes, Competition (Psychology)

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Precompetition self-confidence: The role of the self

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Self-discrepancies in self-confidence in relation to performance and cognitive anxiety are explored. Slalom canoeists reported ideal, ought, and feared levels of self-confidence 3 hours before a national ranking slalom tournament and a hierarchical multiple-regression analyses revealed that self-discrepancies predicted significantly more performance variance than actual self-confidence alone.

Evaluation, Self-confidence, Self confidence

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