The Effects of a Mental Skills Training Package on Gymnasium Triathlon Performance

Thelwell, Richard C.; Greenlees, Iain A.

doi:10.1123/tsp.15.2.127

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“…Overall, research in sport settings has provided evidence that psychological skills facilitate athletic performance with both team and individual athletes (Beauchamp, Halliwell, Fournier, & Koestner, 1996;Greenspan & Feltz, 1989;Mullen & Copper, 1994;Smith, Schutz, Smoll, & Ptacek, 1995;Thelwell & Greenlees, 2001). Psychological skills such as relaxation training, positive thought control, self-regulation, imagery, concentration, energy control, self-monitoring, goal setting, and cohesion have all been found to influence performance and other outcome variables.…”

Section: Emotional Intelligence and Baseball Performancementioning

confidence: 95%

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Performance Among College Basketball Players

Zizzi

Deaner

Hirschhorn

2003

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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Section: Emotional Intelligence and Baseball Performancementioning

confidence: 95%

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Performance Among College Basketball Players

Zizzi

Deaner

Hirschhorn

2003

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

110

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“…x (Smith & Ward, 2006) x x x (Swain & Jones, 1995) x (Thelwell & Greenlees, 2001) x x x x (Thelwell & Greenness, 2003) x (Brobst & Ward, 2002) x x x (Broker et al, 1993) x x (Carroll & Bandura, 1982) x x x x x (Critchfield & Vargas, 1991) x x (Downs et al, 2015) x x (Dowrick & Dove, 1980) x (Emmen et al, 1985) x x x x (Fitterling & Ayllon, 1983) x (Shapiro & Shapiro, 1985) x x x x (Smith & Ward, 2006) x Note. + means that simulated practice was also used.…”

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A review of behavioral interventions to enhance sports performance

Schenk

Miltenberger

2019

Behavioral Interventions

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these studies use a multicomponent intervention, they often assess novel component combinations or apply an intervention to a scarcely studied or unstudied sport or target behavior.A recent poll found that three quarters of adults in the United States played sports when they were younger, and one quarter of adults continue to play sports throughout their lives, with more than 50 different sports included (Sports and Health in America, 2015). Additionally, participating in sports has numerous physical and social benefits to the athlete. Furthermore, it is reported that 63% of people in the United States describe themselves as sports fans (Carroll, 2005). This demonstrates the significance of sports within society and indicates the importance of a continued focus on the research of sports-related behavior.Perhaps as a result of the prevalence of professional sports and the widespread participation in sports across countries, there has been a proliferation of sports research in the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) over the past several decades. Recent publications (e.g., Luiselli & Reed, 2015;Martin, 2015) describe how behavior analytic techniques have been utilized to address a wide range of behaviors across multiple sports and populations.This research is based on principles and procedures of behavioral science established over the past 80 or more years with single-subject designs. Thus, there is not a current review comparing and contrasting the various behavioral procedures that have been used to enhance sports performance and the different sports targeted with a behavioral intervention. The purpose of this paper is to review the research applying behavior analytic procedures to performance enhancement across sports. | METHOD | Inclusion and exclusion criteriaTwo inclusion criteria were used to identify studies for review. First, a behavioral intervention had to be implemented in each study. A behavior intervention includes using any form of an intervention that might alter an observable behavior. Second, the target behavior was sport performance consisting of the measurement of an athlete's observable behavior. Regarding performance enhancement, a sports intervention can target the behavior of the individual playing the sport, or it can target the behavior of the individual coaching the players. Studies were excluded if the focus was solely on physical activity (i.e., exercise promotion) rather than sports performance. Although increasing physical activity can be part of sport performance enhancement, the purpose of such research is generally on health outcomes as opposed to performance enhancement. Additional sports-related studies were excluded if the focus was therapeutic instead of performance based (e.g., using a sports activity to decrease anxiety), the focus was not on performance of a skill related to an organized sport (e.g., throwing a ball), and if the study was not written in English. SCHENK AND MILTENBERGER 249

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“…Sport psychological factors have been identified as potentially important in enhancing triathlon performance, however the role in predicting triathlon performance have been based on recommendations from general sport psychology (Baker & Sedgwick, 2005), some interventions based on imagery, relaxation and self-talk having a positive effect on race times for gymnasium triathlon (Thelwell & Greenless, 2001, 2003, qualitative differences based on active thoughts for expert as compared to passive unrelated thoughts of middle of pack and back of pack ultra endurance triathletes ) and gender differences in attributions for triathlon performance.…”

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Self-efficacy and its relationship to selected sport psychological constructs in the prediction of performance in ironman triathlon

Heazlewood¹,

Burke²

2011

JHSE

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Heazlewood I, Burke S. Self-efficacy and its relationship to selected sport psychological constructs in the prediction of performance in ironman triathlon. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 328-350, 2011. The focus of this study was to apply this approach to an Ironman TM (3.8km swim, 180km cycle, and 42.2km run) triathlon event. The methodology utilized physiological measures (VO 2max , adiposity, height, weight), history of performance and sport psychological constructs (self-efficacy, motivation, sport confidence, cognitive and somatic anxiety) to predict total performance time and individual swim, cycle and run performance times. The results, utilizing correlation, regression and path analysis indicated that performance can be predicted more accurately when variables are assessed from a variety of Human Movement domains. The correlation analysis indicated only outcome orientations (r=0.68, p<0.001) and performance orientation (r=0.70, p<0.001) were significantly correlated with triathlon performance as compared to the non-predictive value of the CSAI-2 component of somatic anxiety, the attribution variables of internal, luck and powerful others, and history of previous performance. The path model explained a significant 44% of the variance of race performance. An investigation of the mediation of efficacy on performance in the race revealed that when direct paths were drawn from self-estimations to performance, non-significant regression weights were reported for the indirect paths to predict performance.

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The Effects of a Mental Skills Training Package on Gymnasium Triathlon Performance

Cited by 61 publications

References 22 publications

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Performance Among College Basketball Players

The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Performance Among College Basketball Players

A review of behavioral interventions to enhance sports performance

Self-efficacy and its relationship to selected sport psychological constructs in the prediction of performance in ironman triathlon

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