Search results for "Sport psychology"

Coach-Created Motivational Climate

2007

Toward a conceptual understanding of acute cultural adaptation: A preliminary examination of ACA in female swimming

2012

This paper considers a novel approach to researching adaptation in transnational athletes. The first part introduces a conceptualisation of acute cultural adaptation (ACA), which extends the current literature in sport psychology by offering original insights into mechanisms underpinning adaptive processes to a new cultural site during an interim relocation. Rereading a self-determination theory through the lens of cultural epistemology, the proposed theorisation suggests that ACA is realised in everyday practices drawing on a range of material and symbolic cultural resources to satisfy basic psychological needs. The second part of the paper engages the conceptualisation of ACA to make sens…

The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support : An Existential-Humanistic Perspective

2022

This study aims to highlight how an existential-humanistic perspective can inform athlete support and in doing so, emphasise the importance of explicating the philosophical underpinnings of athlete lifestyle support. Drawing on applied experience with elite youth cricketers over a twelve-month period, ethnographic data was collected through the observation, maintenance of case notes and a practitioner reflective diary. Based on thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), we created three non-fictional vignettes that we use to illustrate how existential-humanistic theorising can inform lifestyle support. We discuss the implications of this professional philosophy in terms of considerations for…

Fra toppspiller til topptrener i håndball : en casestudie av en tidligere landslagsspillers rollebytte til trenerrollen

2010

Masteroppgave i idrettsvitenskap Universitetet i Agder 2010 Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke overgangen mellom praksis og teori hos en fersk topptrener i håndball, der spillerkarrieren sees på som praksis, mens trenerrollen blir sett på som teori. Med utgangspunkt i mesterlære, en treners mestringstro og personlige egenskaper blir det belyst hvordan en tidligere landslagsspiller og utenlandsproff, håndterer overgangen fra spiller, via en rolle som spillende assistent, til rollen som hovedtrener for et av Norges beste lag de seneste årene. Dette er singelcase-studie der det er benyttet en kvalitativ metode i form av dybdeintervju med informant. Det er i tillegg benyttet lyd- og vid…

Fotballtreneres beslutningsstiler : en undersøkelse av treneres beslutningsstiler i relasjon til alder, erfaring og idrettsutdanning

2011

Masteroppgave i idrettsvitenskap- Universitetet i Agder 2011 Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke fotballtreneres beslutningsstiler i relasjon til alder, erfaring og idrettsutdanning. For å studere denne sammenhengen gjennomførte 99 mannlige fotballtrenere fra alderbestemte lag til eliteserie, og landslag, en spørreundersøkelse for å undersøke i hvilken grad treneres alder, erfaring (spiller- og trenererfaring) og idrettsutdanning (høgskole- og universitetsutdanning, og trenerkurs) påvirker valg av beslutningsstil. For å måle treneres beslutningsstiler ble Scott og Bruces‟ (1995) General Decision- Making Style (GDMS) benyttet. Resultatene viser at den unngående beslutningsstilen er neg…

" En undersøkelse av effekten lederatferd og gruppekohesjon har på kollektiv mestringsforventning i fotballag"

2010

Masteroppgave i idrettsvitenskap Universitetet i Agder 2010 Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke hvilken effekt lederatferd og kohesjon har på kollektiv mestringsforventning i fotballag. For å studere denne sammenhengen gjennomførte 153 mannlige fotballspillere fra 12 lag en spørreundersøkelse for å undersøke i hvilken grad treners lederatferd og gruppekohesjon påvirker den kollektive mestringsforventning. For å måle treners lederatferd ble Chelladurai og Salehs (1980) Leadership Scale for Sports benyttet. For å måle gruppekohesjon ble Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Widmeyer & Brawley, 1985) benyttet, og for å måle kollektiv mestringsforventning ble Collective Efficacy Questi…

Sport commitment and adherence: A social-cognitive analysis. (Compromiso deportivo y adherencia: Un análisis cognitivo social).

2011

Abstract Statement of problem: This study aimed to analyse the ability of a model based on achievement motivation and self-determination theories to predict adherence to competitive sport. This model incorporated commitment as predictor of adherence. A prospective study was performed with a sample of 302 handball players aged between 14 and 18 years. Structural equation modelling gave support to the model proposed. It was verified the sequence of relationships between perceptions of coach-created mastery climate, psychological needs, self-determined motivation, commitment, and adherence. The major contribution of the study was to confirm a motivational model of adherence based on social-cog…

“She is where I’d want to be in my career” : Youth athletes’ role models and their implications for career and identity construction

2019

Abstract Objectives While role models have been documented to play a vital role in adolescents’ career development and identity exploration, in sport psychology they remain an untapped resource. The present study drew on narrative inquiry to explore the patterns of role model selection by adolescent student-athletes and the narrative maps these role models provide for self-construction. As a second objective, the study sought to understand the impact of gender on the selection and meaning of role models. Method Eighteen Finnish student-athletes (10 women, eight men) aged 17-18 participated in conversational interviews. We analysed the data with thematic and structural narrative analyses. Re…

Situational and dispositional goals as predictors of perceptions of individual and team improvement, satisfaction and coach ratings among elite femal…

2002

Abstract Objectives. To examine the relationship of the perceived motivational climate created by the coach and dispositional goal orientations of elite female handball players' (a) perceived individual and team improvement in different facets of the game; (b) satisfaction with their own and the team's game; and (c) ratings of the coach. A second aim was to study whether the dependent variables were best predicted by the perceived motivational climate created by the coach and/or the players' dispositional goal orientations. Design. Cross-sectional. Methods: Elite female handball players (n=181) from 14 teams participating in a national handball competition in Spain completed the Spanish mea…

Career development and transitions of athletes : the International Society of Sport Psychology Position Stand Revisited

2020

This paper is a comprehensive update of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Position Stand on career development and transitions of athletes issued a decade ago (Stambulova, Alfermann, Statler, & Côté, 2009, ISSP Position Stand: Career development and transitions of athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7, 395–412.). A need for updating the 2009 Position Stand has grown out of the increasing inconsistency between its popularity and high citation, on the one hand, and its dated content that inadequately reflects the current status of athlete career research and assistance, on the other. During the last decade, sport psychology career scholars work…