China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
Baseball
Published in Ira Glick, Danielle Kamis, Todd Stull, The ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry, 2018
David McDuff, Don Thompson, Michelle Garvin
Performance anxiety (or competitive anxiety) is a psychological state that results in response to a perceived threat concerning the performance of a task under pressure (Goodger & Broadhead, 2016). For athletes, pressure may come from self, coaches, teammates, and parents, and is explained by pressure to maintain a spot on a team, earn a starting position, or get recruited to play at a higher level (Goodger & Broadhead, 2016). For baseball players, all of these pressures are relevant, and given the culture of the sport (large rosters with frequent promotions and demotions, multiple levels of competition, and frequent manager or coaching turnover) pressure to earn and maintain positions on teams may be felt even more than in other sports.
Substance use in a sexual context: the association of sex-related substance use motives with substance choice and use behaviors
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2021
Jennifer C. Elliott, Ashley L. Greene, Ronald G. Thompson, Nicholas R. Eaton, Deborah S. Hasin
Participants reporting drinking before sex responded to the prompt: “When you drink before sex, what are the primary reasons?”. Participants reporting drug use before sex responded to the prompt: “When you use drugs before or during sex, what are the primary reasons?”. They were asked to endorse any or all that applied. The seven response options following both prompts included use (a) “to get my sex partner to drink”/“to get my sex partner to use a drug”; (b) “to enhance the sexual experience overall;” (c) “to make my sex partner more appealing;” (d) “to improve sexual performance;” (e) “to reduce performance anxiety;” (f) “to loosen up and relax” and (g) “Other” (free response). Participants indicated whether each sex-related substance use motive related to their decision to use alcohol and/or to use drugs before sex by choosing “yes” or “no.” These items were written for the current study (including sex-related substance use motives documented in the literature (e.g., (Banks & Zapolski, 2017; Celio et al., 2016; Kahler et al., 2015; Melendez-Torres & Bourne, 2016) and generated by the authors) to explore differential endorsement of motives that could be potentially relevant to both alcohol and drugs.
“I don’t want to be a patient”: Peer mentoring partnership fosters communication for autistic university students
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
C. Thompson, J. McDonald, T. Kidd, T. Falkmer, S. Bölte, S. Girdler
Executive functioning and self-efficacy underpin self-advocacy skills, requiring university students to both recognise a problem and believe they can solve it. Students who experience challenges in learning contexts have significantly lower levels of self-efficacy than their typically developing peers [27]. The development of self-efficacy is facilitated when students have the opportunity and support to influence their learning experience [28,29]. Self-efficacy can be promoted by successful completions of tasks that can result in a sense of mastery [30]. Self-efficacy is further developed by observing others completing activities, verbal support and constructive feedback, and cognitively re-evaluating physiological experiences associated with performance anxiety [30]. Self-efficacy can therefore be enhanced through individualised and activity focussed supports [31].
Metacognitions in Triathletes: Associations With Attention, State Anxiety, and Relative Performance
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2018
Steven Love, Lee Kannis-Dymand, Geoff P. Lovell
Cheng, Hardy, and Markland (2009) also addressed issues with the conceptualization and measurement of performance anxiety by developing the three-dimensional model of performance anxiety. Cheng et al.’s model explains performance anxiety as being characterized by cognitive anxiety (worry and self-focused attention), physiological anxiety (autonomous hyperactivity and somatic tension), and a regulatory dimension (perceived control and confidence). In this conceptualization, the directional interpretation of anxiety is seen to oversimplify the complex nature of anxiety, and thus also accounted for its perceived controllability, representing a performer's coping capacity (Cheng et al., 2009). There have since been developments in fortifying support for this model (e.g., Cheng & Hardy, 2016).