Interpretation of competitive anxiety symptoms and goal attainment expectancies

Article Abstract:

Tests of swimmers on the intensity and positive or negative effect of their cognitive anxiety, and on their outcome, performance, and process goals before a major race, support some aspects of Jones's 1995 control model. Swimmers with positive goal-attainment expectations perceived cognitive and somatic anxiety more positively than those with negative or neutral expectations, though both groups saw somatic anxiety as facilitating high performance. The results indicate useful goal-setting approaches for athletes.

Anxiety, Swimmers, Competition (Psychology)

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Hypnotic susceptibility and the attainment of flowlike states during exercise

Article Abstract:

A study attempted to correlate susceptibility to hypnosis and heart rate with the ability to attain a flowlike state, a physical and behavioral balance between challenge and personal skill. Persons in the circuit training-based study reported reaching flowlike states more frequently as their exercise sessions continued, and a state of flow was experienced more often by participants high in hypnotic susceptibility. Heart rates did not strongly correlate with flow.

Psychological aspects, Heart beat, Heart rate, Circuit training, Mind and body, Hypnotism, Hypnosis

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Achievement goals, self-handicapping, and performance attainment: A mediational analysis

Article Abstract:

The mediational role of self-handicapping is examined in the relationship between achievement goals and performance on a sport based activity. The results show that both forms of self-handicapping are found to have independent mediational effects on decreased performance.

Analysis, Meditation

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