Golf: Sport Psychology Challenges

Bunker, Linda K.

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“…Participating in competitive sport can be an extremely stressful experience for athletes, and is associated with a gamut of emotions (Nicholls et al., 2012). Golf has been recognized as perhaps the most challenging of all sports in terms of mental control, and can generate emotions of high intensity (Bunker, 2006). Therefore, it is essential for researchers to try to understand how affective states are generated among golfers in the lead up to competition, and whether and to what extent these affective states impact upon performance, in order to formulate useful methods for athletes to learn to manage these psychological states.…”

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Examination of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, and challenge and threat evaluations in the prediction of tournament affective states and performance of competitive elite Indian golfers

Chadha,

Turner,

Slater

2023

Stress and Health

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Researchers have intimated that cognitions and emotions can change in the lead up to important events. However, previous research has adopted atemporal cross‐sectional designs, making it challenging to understand how cognitions and emotions unfold in the lead up to a competition. In the current study, we extended previous research by examining the temporal patterns of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, and challenge and threat evaluations in predicting pre‐competitive affective states (hedonic balance and anxiety) in the lead up to an actual competition, among competitive elite Indian golfers (N = 107). We adopted a within‐subjects repeated‐measures design and collected data in the lead up to an actual golf tournament, at three timepoints; 1 week before (T1), the night before (T2), and an hour prior (T3). Self‐reported measures of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, challenge and threat evaluations, affect, and anxiety were completed. Also, objective golf performance was collected from participants. Crossed‐lagged path analysis did not find a causal effect for irrational beliefs on any of the variables across the three time points. On the other hand, hierarchical multiple regression analysis determined that changes in irrational beliefs predicted changes in cognitive appraisals, threat evaluation, cognitive and somatic anxiety, and the directional interpretation of anxiety. The findings of temporal patterns in the current research indicated that sport psychologists should consider the dynamic nature of antecedent cognitions and affective states in the lead up to competition, and accordingly provide adequate support to the athletes. Further, limitations and future research is discussed with reference to the results.

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Examination of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, and challenge and threat evaluations in the prediction of tournament affective states and performance of competitive elite Indian golfers

Chadha,

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Slater

2023

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“…This research asserts to be focused on the present time and ignore the past. Golf is unique game in all respects (8). Pre-strike plan has displayed the fact that good golfers have a better mental preparation involving higher-up concentration and that they are less affected by negative evaluations on their performances or the inner-talk related to this.…”

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The analysis of the attention levels of individuals playing golf

TUNC¹,

AKANDERE²

2014

TJSE

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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the golf exercises affect the attention level of the individuals in 14-15 years of age. The sample group of the study is occurring 60 students in 14-15 age group from Hekimoglu Vocational High School located in Selcuklu District of Konya. The mean age of the subjects participating in the study as the experimental group is 14.80 ± 1.38 years, mean age of the control group is 14.90 ± 1.39 years. Before and after the 8 weeks process Bourdon (1955) attention test is applied. SPSS 16.0 programme is used in evaluation and using the calculated values. The test of the data distribution is normal or not made by One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test method and fixed that data have normal distribution. For the pre-test -posttest comparisons in the group paired samples t-test is used. As a result, in the survey made for inspecting the attention levels of the individuals in 14 -15 age group who are making golf exercises, it is fixed that the golf exercise applied to the test group affects the attention level of the kids significantly. In this context, we can say that the golf exercise positively affect the attention properties of the kids in 14-15 age group.

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Golf: Sport Psychology Challenges

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Examination of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, and challenge and threat evaluations in the prediction of tournament affective states and performance of competitive elite Indian golfers

Examination of cognitive appraisals, irrational beliefs, and challenge and threat evaluations in the prediction of tournament affective states and performance of competitive elite Indian golfers

The analysis of the attention levels of individuals playing golf

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