Psychological Skills Used by Sport Psychology Consultants to Improve Their Consulting

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“…Goal-directed self-talk research focuses on statements that reflect controlled mental processes that are consciously used for self-regulation, problem-solving, and rational thinking. According to the descriptors used in many goal-directed self-talk studies, this type of self-talk is thought of as a self-regulation strategy (Littlewood et al, 2018; Neck & Manz, 1992) that takes a verbal form (Lin, 2017; Manfra et al, 2014) or as a psychological skill (Filion et al, 2019; Kirschenbaum et al, 1998). This usage is clearly in line with the definition of goal-directed self-talk as a self-regulatory mechanism that is used intentionally and effortfully to make progress on a task, whether writing an essay or pursuing the acquisition of self-knowledge (Latinjak et al, 2014).…”

“…Nevertheless, from the information provided in most articles, it was difficult to know which of these three criteria was used to name selftalk. For example, the most popular self-talk labels, positive self-talk and negative self-talk (Table 1), could reflect the Inner dialogue 14,16,17 Also: Dialogical ST 9 Overt ST 6,17,18 or private speech 6,17,18 Covert ST 17 or inner speech 18,19 b) … ST content and types of self-statements of both goal-directed and spontaneous ST. Spontaneous ST 54,59 Also: Undirected ST 54 Negative ST 41,43,44,45,46,48,50,51,53,55,57,60 Anxious ST 42,45,46,48,49,55 Depressive ST 42,45,46 Positive ST 41,43,46,51,52,53,60 Goal-directed ST research Also: Rational ST 25 Positive ST …”

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