Psychological factors and future performance of football players: A systematic review with meta-analysis

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Sport psychology and performance meta-analyses: A systematic review of the literature

“…As for the constructs covered, we categorized the 30 meta-analyses into the following areas: mental practice/imagery [ 14 , 29 , 30 , 42 , 46 , 47 ], anxiety [ 26 , 31 , 32 , 35 ], confidence [ 26 , 35 , 36 ], cohesion [ 18 , 19 , 23 ], goal orientation [ 22 , 44 , 48 ], mood [ 21 , 25 , 34 ], emotional intelligence [ 40 ], goal setting [ 33 ], interventions [ 37 ], mindfulness [ 27 ], music [ 28 ], neurofeedback training [ 43 ], perfectionism [ 39 ], pressure training [ 45 ], quiet eye training [ 41 ], and self-talk [ 38 ]. Multiple effects were generated from meta-analyses that included more than one construct (e.g., tension, depression, etc.…”

More Success With the Optimal Motivational Pattern? A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Young Athletes in Individual Sports

“…Moreover, because the importance of the motivational subsystem may vary in relation to other multidimensional factors characterizing talent during the time span of talent development (Baker et al, 2019), it would be of particular interest to examine the development of the prognostic value (e.g., ORs) of the different motivational patterns in a dynamical manner (e.g., early, middle, and late adolescence). Indeed, as noted by Ivarsson et al (2020), potential moderators (e.g., age) might affect the strength of the relationship between psychological factors and future performance.…”

Nationwide Subjective and Objective Assessments of Potential Talent Predictors in Elite Youth Soccer: An Investigation of Prognostic Validity in a Prospective Study

“…Comprehensive models for talent development (e.g., DMGT; Gagné, 2010) provide a theoretical basis for examining the predictive value of psychosocial dispositions and skills from the personality-related domain, such as motivation or volitional selfregulation (e.g., Mills et al, 2012) that are mainly investigated with subjective self-report questionnaires. Several systematic reviews (e.g., Gledhill et al, 2017;Murr et al, 2018a;Ivarsson et al, 2020;Williams et al, 2020) highlight the importance of psychological predictors for (successful) talent development in soccer. Nevertheless, similar to the other investigated domains in this study, the effect sizes in these reviews do not support the use of sport psychological diagnostics as a selection tool in talent development programs.…”

“…Moreover, from a methodological perspective, there are some non-trivial difficulties when combining subjective and objective assessments in one longitudinal analysis. For example, in this study, the coaches were asked to evaluate the players' performance factors in regards to the corresponding reference groups (Ivarsson et al, 2020). Thus, in contrast to the motor tests, no absolute values were available from the implemented subjective assessment and an investigation of players' developmental process would have been restricted to the exploration of development only relative to other players.…”

“…Talent identification and development in soccer have been "vibrant research areas" for sport scientists in the last two decades (Williams et al, 2020, p. 1). Several prospective studies with multidimensional approaches have provided empirical evidence on the significant, yet also partly limited prognostic relevance of objective diagnostics that assess youth players' characteristics, abilities, and skills in soccer (Murr et al, 2018a,b;Sarmento et al, 2018;Ivarsson et al, 2020). However, little is known about the prognostic validity of subjective evaluations of such performance factors by coaches or scouts, and recent studies highlight the need to integrate both subjective and objective evaluations of potential talent predictors (Dugdale et al, 2020;Ford et al, 2020).…”