Challenge and threat states, performance, and attentional control during a pressurized soccer penalty task.

Brimmell, Jack; Parker, John K.; Wilson, Mark R.; Vine, Samuel J.; Moore, Lee J.

doi:10.1037/spy0000147

Cited by 23 publications

(42 citation statements)

References 44 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Some contemporary challenge and threat theory (such as the TCTSA) does not include coping in its Lazarusian form (i.e., emotion focused and problem focused coping). The current study, alongside other extant research (e.g., Brimmell et al, 2019), demonstrates that the DRES has utility in predicting performance and therefore theorists should more closely consider the role of coping in challenge and threat states. Indeed, the DRES has been shown to predict performance in a range of contexts in the laboratory (e.g., Vine et al, 2013), and in more ecologically valid settings similar to the current study, such as sport (Moore et al, 2013), aviation (e.g., Vine et al, 2015), and medicine (e.g., Roberts et al, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

Do challenge and threat evaluations predict netball performance and selection at trials in youth netball players?

Turner¹,

Massie²,

Slater³

et al. 2021

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the current paper, we investigated the extent to which challenge and threat evaluations predicted the trials performance of youth netball players. This paper compared two theoretical frameworks, the Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) and the BioPsychoSocial Model (BPSM) of Challenge and Threat, in their prediction of trials performance. A field-based cross-sectional design was adopted, including self-report psychometric, and observational performance, data. Data were collected prior to the participants' trials performance. Youth female netball athletes (n = 92, Mage = 13.26 years, SD = 1.55) completed psychometrics concerning challenge and threat evaluations and emotions, in relation to upcoming trials performance. Performance was rated by 10 independent club coaches. Binary logistic and linear regression analyses revealed that BPSMderived resource evaluations (general self-confidence, general perception of positive challenge, positive disposition) were related to trials performance, whilst TCTSA-derived resource evaluations (self-efficacy, perceived control, goal orientation) were not. Also, a greater perceived ability to cope with demands was positively related to trial outcome. The strongest and most consistent predictor of performance was number of previous trials. The greater number of previously attended trials, the better the participants performed in trials. The findings reveal the importance of BPSM-derived resource evaluations and the perceived ability to cope with demands in the prediction of performance outcomes, over and above the TCTSA-derived resource evaluations. The findings also have important implications for sports teams, athletes, and coaches, who should strive to maximise perceptions of resources and coping abilities in the face of pressure situations, such as trials.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

Do challenge and threat evaluations predict netball performance and selection at trials in youth netball players?

Turner¹,

Massie²,

Slater³

et al. 2021

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This indicates that evaluations and physiological responses to challenge and threat operated in separation. Although this finding contradicts the theory (Blascovich 2008), it is in line with some previous studies that revealed a non-significant relationship between CO and TPR, and challenge/threat evaluation (Behnke et al 2020;Brimmell et al 2019). This might result from the fact that physiological responses are mainly influenced by the homeostatic mechanisms and depend on several factors with stress appraisal being only one of them (Levenson 2014).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Gratitude Texting Touches the Heart: Challenge/Threat Cardiovascular Responses to Gratitude Expression Predict Self-initiation of Gratitude Interventions in Daily Life

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Gratitude-based interventions are effective in facilitating positive relationships and increasing life satisfaction. However, for some individuals (e.g., with high levels of depression and low trait-gratitude) gratitude expression is threatening and rarely undertaken spontaneously. In this study, we expected to replicate this gratitude expression threat effect. Moreover, we aimed to understand psychophysiological mechanisms of this effect by accounting for cognitive, motivational, and physiological responses to gratitude expression in line with the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. One hundred ninety-six students (51% women) between the ages of 18 and 31 years old (M = 21.20, SD = 2.08) reported personality measures and completed a laboratory session where they expressed gratitude via text messages after reporting evaluation and motivation towards the task. Their cardiovascular reactivity was monitored continuously. After the session, participants were invited to continue a gratitude intervention for the next three weeks. We found that individuals with higher depression and lower trait-gratitude were less likely to initiate gratitude intervention. This effect was mediated by a cardiovascular marker of threat (total peripheral resistance) that inhibited motivation and behavior. In summary, we replicated and provided further evidence for the role of personality traits in predicting aversive responses to gratitude expression via interventions. These findings contribute to the person-activity fit recommendations.

show abstract

“…Precisely, the BPSM states that feedback during and after the motivated performance situation is used to update task demand and coping resource evaluations. A recent study supported this prediction, finding that performance in the first part of a motivated performance situation was positively associated with demand-resource evaluations in anticipation of the second part of the motivated performance situation, where better performance predicted evaluations more consistent with a challenge state (Brimmell et al, 2019). The BPSM also states that task disengagement occurs when demand evaluations extremely outweigh resource evaluations (or vice versa).…”

Section: Integrating Blunted Cvr To Stress Into the Bpsmmentioning

confidence: 88%

Threat-related motivational disengagement: Integrating blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress into the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat

Hase

Rot

Azevedo

et al. 2020

Anxiety, Stress, & Coping

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat specifies a challenge-threat continuum where favorable demand-resource evaluations, efficient cardiovascular responses, and superior performance characterize challenge; and maladaptive outcomes like clinical depression characterize threat states. The model also specifies task engagement, operationalized as heart rate and ventricular contractility increases, as a prerequisite for challenge and threat states. The blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress literature describes reductions of these increases and associates them with problems like clinical depression. Objectives: To determine whether blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress has implications for challenge and threat theory. Methods: We review and synthesize the literatures on blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress and the biopsychosocial model. Results: Blunted cardiovascular reactivity appears not to reflect a physiological inability to respond to stress. Rather, it reflects a contextually dependent motivational dysregulation and reduced reactivity to stress consistent with deficient task engagement in the biopsychosocial model. Conclusion:We argue that blunted cardiovascular reactivity represents deficient task engagement, and more generally, motivational disengagement due to threat states. Our biopsychosocial model-based approach conceptualizes this motivational disengagement as a tendency to avoid motivated performance situations. This tendency may represent a defense mechanism against subsequent threat and might explain associations with disorders like clinical depression.

show abstract

Challenge and threat states, performance, and attentional control during a pressurized soccer penalty task.

Abstract: The University of Gloucestershire accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement.

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

Do challenge and threat evaluations predict netball performance and selection at trials in youth netball players?

Do challenge and threat evaluations predict netball performance and selection at trials in youth netball players?

Gratitude Texting Touches the Heart: Challenge/Threat Cardiovascular Responses to Gratitude Expression Predict Self-initiation of Gratitude Interventions in Daily Life

Threat-related motivational disengagement: Integrating blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress into the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About