Confidence
A belief in your ability to master a particular event or situation.
Trait confidence
General
State confidence
specific to a situation
How might confidence affect the player
assertive, concentration, focus, realistic goals, focus, taking risks, calm
Charecteristics of self confidence
High sports confidence means that a person believes that they will peform well in a sporting situation
Lacking confidence equals
causes stress under pressure
causes concentration on outside stressors
Setting goals which are too easy
Over confidence or false confidence
Is dangerous because it can lead to
Inadeuquate prep
low motivation
low arousal
Charecteristics of self esteem
Belief a personal has regarding their overall worth
Different to self-confidence
High self-esteem means that a person holds themselves in high regards in all situations
Vealey explained
confidence gained in one area of sport could be used to improve confidence in other areas.
These could then combine to produce confidence in an objective sportung situation
competitive orientation is
how musch a peformer is likely to put in the effort to achieve their goal
Objective sporting situation
When the peformance takes into account the situation in which the task is being undertaken
State confidence is
the determining factor
What happens to trait confidence and competitive orientation when the player has a positive outcome
Increase
Bandura proposed the concept of
self efficacy
Self efficacy
The belief in your ability to master a specific sporting situation
Charecteristics of self-efficacy
High self efficacy means that they belief they will perform well in a specific situation
DIFFERENT TO CONFIDENCE
The individual peformers levels of self efficacy can affect the
choice of activity
amount of effort applied
Lvls of persistence
role of the coach in self efficacy
develop self - confidence and self efficacy through successful achievement
Ensure early and continued success by careful selection of
Goals, tasks, levels of competition
Focus on successful personal peformance not winning
In banduras model what 4 factors go into self efficacy
Peformance accomplishments
Verbal pursuation
Emotional arousal
Modelling - virarious experiences
Performance accomplishments
Consist of past experiences
successful = greater self efficacy
Vicarious experiences
consist of what has been observed in others performing a similar skill.
if model is similar age/ability and is successful may lead to greater self-efficacy
Verbal pursuation
encouragement can lead to greater self-efficacy
if the person giving encouragement is of high status
Emotional arousal
if arousal is too high
this could lead to state anxiety
which could lead to low self-efficacy
Mental rehearsal/physical relaxation could leader to greater confidence and calmer approach
Home feild adv
functional assertive behavior
less travel
more audience support
increased motivation
more at ease and fluent
home crowd
Away-more anxiety more travel