Psychosocial factors associated with talent development in football: A systematic review

Gledhill, Adam; Harwood, Chris; Forsdyke, Dale

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.04.002

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“…Regarding MT, a very recent study (Guillen & Santana, ) found that older (U19) male football players had higher MT than younger players (U16), and that there was some difference in MT in relation to the players’ performance level. Even though women's football is a major participatory sport for women worldwide, studies on PS, MT, and anxiety among female football players are almost non‐existent (Gledhill, Harwood & Forsdyke, ). One of the few that do exist found that there was a difference in post‐game confidence among collegiate female football players between starters and non‐starters, favoring the starters (Haneishi, Fry, Moore, Schilling, Li & Fry, ).…”

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Psychological characteristics in women football players: Skills, mental toughness, and anxiety

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Jóhannsdóttir

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Scandinavian J Psychology

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Women's football has been far less studied than men's. This work's objectives were to: (1) analyze the differences in psychological skills, mental toughness (MT), and anxiety in women football players according to their level (national team, first division, and second division); and (2) predict those three levels (using a multivariate model) according to the players’ psychological skills, mental toughness, and anxiety. One hundred and forty‐two Icelandic women football players (23.5 ± 3.5 years) participated in the study. They were classified into three groups according to their level: national team, and first and second divisions. Three questionnaires were used: the Test of Performance Strategies Questionnaire, the Sport Mental Toughness Questionnaire, and the Sport Anxiety Scale‐2 questionnaire. A one‐way ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc correction was used to examine differences between teams. Applying a classification tree analysis, the participants were classified into three groups according to their level. There were few differences between the three groups in psychological skills, but in mental toughness and anxiety the national team had the highest and lowest values respectively, and the first and second division players differed in relaxation in competition (TOPS), total score and confidence (SMTQ), and worry (SAS‐2). The classification tree correctly classified 54.9% of the sample with the variables total score (SMTQ) and activation in practice (TOPS). Therefore, given the relevance that psychological attributes appear to have for women football players’ performance, it would seem indispensable to incorporate the figure of the sports psychologist into national and club teams.

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Psychological characteristics in women football players: Skills, mental toughness, and anxiety

Kristjánsdóttir

Jóhannsdóttir

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Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…Several researchers (e.g. Ryba and Wright 2010;Gledhill and Harwood 2015;Ronkainen, Watkins, and Ryba 2016;Gledhill, Harwood, and Forsdyke 2017;Andersson and Barker-Ruchti 2018) emphasized that female athletes' career studies are scarce and often focus on just describing women's differences or violations from the men's 'norm' .…”

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Composite vignettes of Swedish male and female professional handball players’ career paths

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The aim of this study was to describe gender-specific career paths of Swedish professional handball players. A reanalysis of Ekengren et al. (2018) career interviews with nine male and nine female players led to creating two composite vignettes using the athletes' own words, accounted for typical features in the male and female players' career paths. Seven themes were identified in the analysis of the men's transcripts and eight themes derived from the women's transcripts. Further, the themes of both vignettes were aligned with career stages described in our previous study (Ekengren et al. 2018). The male players' vignette is interpreted as a performance narrative congruent with elite handball culture that promotes performance success and profitable professional contracts. The female players' vignette is more holistic, embracing handball, studies, motherhood, and how they ought to be as Swedish women. Recommendations for future research are provided.The current study is a part of a project focusing on career development in Swedish handball. In our previous study (Ekengren et al. 2018), 18 Swedish professional handball players (nine females) were interviewed about their careers with foci on stages and transitions in their athletic and non-athletic developments. Their data were consolidated into the Empirical Career Model of Swedish professional Handball players (ECM-H) using the holistic athletic career model (Wylleman, Reints, and De Knop 2013) as a template. The ECM-H describes four athletic stages -initiation, development (with three sub-stages), mastery (with four sub-stages), and discontinuation -complemented by stages in five layers relevant to: Swedish handball settings, psychological, psychosocial, academic/vocational, and financial developments. When creating the empirical model, gender-specific features of the players' careers became apparent and of interest for further investigation. We decided to complement ECM-H by descriptions of gender-specific career paths and to make a gender-related reanalysis of the same transcripts but using a different perspective in the data treatment and presentation. The perspective taken in this study is a narrative inquiry in the form of constructing composite vignettes based on the male and female participants' career stories. Our whole project is inspired by the cultural praxis of athletes' careers paradigm encouragingthis is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons Attribution-noncommercial-noDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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“…Crucially therefore, and given that the vast majority of talent research has investigated those athletes who were able to realize their talent (cf. Gledhill, Harwood & Forsdyke, 2017), there is a pressing need to examine the factors involved when a performer could have, or even should have made it, but didn't. Accordingly, and reflecting this gap in the literature, our purpose was to conduct an investigation of the 'talent graveyard'; examining those who did not make it and the reasons why performers perceived as being of both high potential and high performance (cf.…”

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Shoulda, Coulda, Didnae—Why Don’t High-Potential Players Make it?

Taylor¹,

Collins²

2019

The Sport Psychologist

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Given the non-linear nature of talent development, there is a lack of research investigating those who don't make it. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to explore the reasons why performers of high potential didn't meet their expected performance level. Participants, who were experienced talent developers in high level academies from football and rugby, identified five broad reasons for these failures: namely, lacking mental skills, serendipity, pathway based failures, maladaptive family input and lacking physical skills. Using a three-part focus derived from the data, we suggest ways in which talent pathways can optimize their output and prevent these failures.

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Psychosocial factors associated with talent development in football: A systematic review

Cited by 130 publications

References 121 publications

Psychological characteristics in women football players: Skills, mental toughness, and anxiety

Psychological characteristics in women football players: Skills, mental toughness, and anxiety

Composite vignettes of Swedish male and female professional handball players’ career paths

Shoulda, Coulda, Didnae—Why Don’t High-Potential Players Make it?

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