{"title":"The Inhibitive Factor of ʻLoss of Spiritʼ in Competition","authors":"Chiaki Raima, A. Ogawa, H. Sekiya","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2019-1814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2019-1814","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of our study was (1) to clarify the elements and mechanisms of loss of spirit (LOS), and the ways to prevent LOS during competition, and (2) to identify the factors that prevent LOS. We interviewed 18 athletes and analyzed their interview transcripts by creating tags and categories. We divided the text of each transcript into text segments (tags) containing information about LOS or ways to prevent LOS. We then gathered tags with similar meanings and labeled the cluster of tags (categories) to briefly indicate the topic (Côté et al., 1993). Results revealed that the phenomenon of LOS had the following three phases: (1) cause of LOS (e.g., game situations, negative emotions), (2) condition of LOS (e.g., poor concentration, losing the will to fight, negative game situations), and (3) response after the game (e.g., undesirable result). The phenomenon of preventing LOS had the following five phases: (1) cause of nearly experiencing LOS (e.g., game situations, negative emotions), (2) condition of nearly experiencing LOS (e.g., decrease of concentration, losing the will to fight), (3) opportunity to prevent LOS (e.g., positive words and actions of others, heightening the fight), (4) condition after preventing LOS (e.g., improvement of performance, emergence of positive emotions), and (5) response after the game (e.g., evaluation of the game). Furthermore, a comparison of these phenomena revealed that LOS may be prevented by high levels of motivation before the game, positive words and actions of others, keeping the fight, reframing one’s thoughts, improving the game situations, and preserving stamina.","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125070107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Ironic Processing Theory to Motor Performance Overcompensation Errors","authors":"Yoshifumi Tanaka, Ken-ichi Karakida","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134637275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do Hesitation and Collision Behaviors Occur in a Cooperative Pair Performing a Choice-Reaction Task?","authors":"A. Ogawa, Takuya Endo, H. Sekiya","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1805","url":null,"abstract":"In team sports, hesitation occurs when teammates make way for each other, and collision occurs when they crash into each other. The current study investigated reasons of these failures by focusing on the effect of the location of a target and the participants’ intentions on the failures. Ten and 6 pairs performed a choice-reaction task in cooperation in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively. Participants were told that they had to push a flashing button as quickly and accurately as possible and that either member could push. In Experiment 1, the distance between participants and the target (equal /unequal) and the location of the target (on the diagonal line between participants /on the off-diagonal line) were independent variables, and the number of failures were dependent variables. After completing the task, they participated in a semi-structured interview. In Experiment 2, the distance between participants and the target (equal /unequal) and the target row (center row/other rows) were independent variables. Quantitative analyses revealed that hesitations were triggered by the target in the center row. Qualitative analyses revealed that the failures have a connection with various reasons such as the target’s location and participants’ personality; moreover, the failures are divided into hesitation and collision according to the participants’ attitudes to the failures and their visual perception of their partner and the target.","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121652690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatsuya Takeuchi, Sachi Ikudome, S. Mori, T. Ishikura, Hiroki Nakamoto
{"title":"The Influence of Individual Difference in Automatic Imitation Tendency on Efficiency in Observational Learning","authors":"Tatsuya Takeuchi, Sachi Ikudome, S. Mori, T. Ishikura, Hiroki Nakamoto","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1809","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to clarify the influence of individual differences in the automatic imitation tendency on efficiency in observational motor learning. First, twenty participants each having higher or lower automatic imitation tendency were chosen from 210 according to their reaction times in the imitation-inhibition task indicating automatic imitation tendency. Each group performed the observational motor learning that alternately repeated action observation and execution. The participants in each group were further divided into two groups: appropriate model group that observed a model performing the task correctly and inappropriate model group that observed a model performing the task incorrectly. Results revealed that when participants observed the appropriate model, people with higher imitation tendency demonstrated better task performance in the acquisition phase and retention test than did those with a lower imitation tendency. On the other hand, when the participants observed the inappropriate model, the higher imitation tendency group exhibited lower performance in the acquisition phase and the retention test than did the lower imitation tendency group. Additionally, the higher tendency group was more influenced by difference between the appropriate and inappropriate model than was the lower tendency group in learning efficiency. These findings indicate that individual differences in the automatic imitation tendency affect the learning efficiency and retention in observational motor learning. Further, automatic imitation is likely to have a strong influence on observational motor learning regardless of the learners’ intention.","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127510292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kojiro Matsuda, Yasuo Susaki, Kosuke Mukai, Y. Sugiyama
{"title":"Psychological Growth of Athletes who Have Experienced the Yips on Baseball Player","authors":"Kojiro Matsuda, Yasuo Susaki, Kosuke Mukai, Y. Sugiyama","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2018-1715","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed to explore the psychological growth achieved by athletes during coping with the yips. We interviewed six university baseball players (mean age=21.0 years, SD=1.15 years) who experienced the yips using the episode interview method and then gathered narrative data related to the experience of the yips or the psychological growth accompanying the same. As a result of analysis of the data, it was roughly divided into two types of narratives: “narratives of negative psychological changes accompanying the experience of the yips” and “narratives of psychological growth accompanying the experience of the yips.” Further analysis of the latter yielded the following five category groups on psychological growth: “positive changes in consciousness of competition,” “changes in self-recognition,” “mental margin,” “changes in the views of a way of others,” and “deepening of understanding of competition.” These results suggest that the experience of the yips leads to negative as well as positive psychological changes in the athlete.","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"15 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122689456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kohei Shimamoto, Yuko Tokairin, K. Murakami, Motonobu Ishii
{"title":"Appraisal of Required Life Skills for Athletes","authors":"Kohei Shimamoto, Yuko Tokairin, K. Murakami, Motonobu Ishii","doi":"10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2012-1204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4146/JJSPOPSY.2012-1204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":257319,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129060798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}