Models of performance excellence: Four approaches to sport psychology consulting

Aoyagi, Mark W.; Cohen, Alexander B.; Poczwardowski, Artur; Metzler, Jonathan N.; Statler, Traci A.

doi:10.1080/21520704.2017.1355861

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“…Another valuable approach may be to organise and pragmatically tailor theoretically derived concepts, rather than attempting to include all potential factors [ 37 ]. In this, due to the fact that senior international medallists are per se a small population, sport-specific studies—although valuable—are difficult to realise with sufficient power.…”

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The path to international medals: A supervised machine learning approach to explore the impact of coach-led sport-specific and non-specific practice

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Research investigating the nature and scope of developmental participation patterns leading to international senior-level success is mainly explorative up to date. One of the criticisms of earlier research was its typical multiple testing for many individual participation variables using bivariate, linear analyses. Here, we applied state-of-the-art supervised machine learning to investigate potential non-linear and multivariate effects of coach-led practice in the athlete's respective main sport and in other sports on the achievement of international medals. Participants were matched pairs (sport, sex, age) of adult international medallists and non-medallists (n = 166). Comparison of several non-ensemble and treebased ensemble binary classification algorithms identified "eXtreme gradient boosting" as the best-performing algorithm for our classification problem. The model showed fair discrimination power between the international medallists and non-medallists. The results indicate that coach-led other-sports practice until age 14 years was the most important feature. Furthermore, both main-sport and other-sports practice were non-linearly related to international success. The amount of main-sport practice displayed a parabolic pattern while the amount of other-sports practice displayed a saturation pattern. The findings question excess involvement in specialised coach-led main-sport practice at an early age and call for childhood/adolescent engagement in coach-led practice in various sports. In data analyses, combining traditional statistics with advanced supervised machine learning may improve both testing of the robustness of findings and new discovery of patterns among multivariate relationships of variables, and thereby of new hypotheses.

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The path to international medals: A supervised machine learning approach to explore the impact of coach-led sport-specific and non-specific practice

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“…Concentration refers to the extent of relevant attention. Execution refers to performance (28). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) also works with individuals to change thoughts and behaviors to manage emotional distress (29).…”

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Sport Psychology: Principles and Practices for Sports Medicine Physicians

Grunberg,

Doorley,

Barry

2024

Curr Sports Med Rep

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Sport psychology is the scientific study and application of psychological principles to enhance performance and well-being in sport, exercise, and physical activity. It has numerous applications to sports medicine, as psychological factors are associated with sport injury risk, recovery, successful return to play, and overall health. This article addresses how sport psychology is important to sports medicine and what applied sport psychologists do. We discuss several psychological principles and practices relevant to individual performance and well-being, including goal setting, communication, arousal and performance, imagery/mental rehearsal, attention management, managing psychological distress, and behavioral health. We also discuss principles and practices of sport psychology relevant to team performance, including stages of team development, goal setting, communication, arousal and performance, and behavioral health. Sport psychology and applied sport psychology practitioners can be valued assets to sports medicine teams in supporting individual and team performance and injury recovery.

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“…Error, on the other hand, reflects all the other variables that can contribute to the discrepancy between actual skill and observed performance, such as weather, opponents, surface, referees, or distraction. Sport performance is usually measured against a predetermined standard and often involves external evaluation (Aoyagi et al, 2018;Aoyagi & Portenga, 2010). Matthews et al (2000) define the term performance from the perspective of cognitive science, which provides the main theoretical basis for the topic of real and artificial tasks.…”

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Performance, Achievement, and Success in Psychological Research: Towards a More Transparent Use of the Still Ambiguous Terminology

Mašková

Kučera

2021

Psychol Rep

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The present study focused on the terms performance, achievement, and success that have often been used in an ambiguous manner in psychological research. The way in which the meaning of the domain-specific constructs referred to with the terms was established for measurement purposes was investigated on a sample of 262 articles that stemmed from 35 randomly selected journals covering the full range of psychological research. The operational definitions of the constructs referred to with the terms performance, achievement, and success were analysed and compared in both inter- and intra-domain fashion. Additionally, we assessed the match among the observed operational definitions and general conceptual definitions available in the extant literature. The results revealed terminology-related issues in educational and occupational research. Within these domains, lack of adherence to the multidimensionality of the constructs of academic performance, academic achievement, academic success, job performance, and career success was identified as a general issue. Further, the tendency to measure job performance via indicators based on self-rating was considered inadequate given the objective nature of the term performance. In educational research, the overlap of the academic performance, academic achievement, and academic success constructs was confirmed, resulting from the tendency to use GPA as a universal indicator of academic outcomes. Based on the present findings, we provided several recommendations in order to encourage future research towards a more transparent way of dealing with the particular constructs referred to with the terms performance, achievement, and success. We suppose the present study may help researchers in the full range of psychological disciplines to add clarity to their own research.

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Models of performance excellence: Four approaches to sport psychology consulting

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

The path to international medals: A supervised machine learning approach to explore the impact of coach-led sport-specific and non-specific practice

The path to international medals: A supervised machine learning approach to explore the impact of coach-led sport-specific and non-specific practice

Sport Psychology: Principles and Practices for Sports Medicine Physicians

Performance, Achievement, and Success in Psychological Research: Towards a More Transparent Use of the Still Ambiguous Terminology

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