{"title":"A conceptual model of the athlete retirement decision-making process","authors":"Sung-hyun Park, D. Lavallee, D. Tod","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2013.44.409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"162 1","pages":"409-428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Macpherson, D. Collins, P. Graham-Smith, A. Turner
{"title":"Using rhythmicity to promote performance in horizontal jumps: An exemplar of the need for individually-tailored interventions","authors":"A. Macpherson, D. Collins, P. Graham-Smith, A. Turner","doi":"10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.093","url":null,"abstract":"1 The current study compared and contrasted the optimal regulation of stride patterns in the 2 horizontal jumping events for 6 British athletes of international standard. Long jump and 3 triple jump approach data were collected over a 3-year period in international and domestic 4 competitions and considered against the distances achieved. Results suggest that on approach 5 to the take-off board, the majority of athletes’ jumps of greater length (intra-athlete) are 6 associated with a low variability, rhythmical footfall. Given the variable approach strategies 7 used by the athletes in question, and consequently the theoretical implications the data set 8 holds, tentative conclusions are drawn regarding the means by which scientists and coaches 9 should assess and design suitable performance focused interventions for elite performers 10 based on individual responses. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Horizontal Jump Performance Using Rhythmicity to Promote Performance in Horizontal Jumps: An Exemplar of the Need 1 for Individually-Tailored Interventions 2 Determining how skilled performers execute goal-directed behaviours and the means 3 that enable performance to be enhanced is an essential role which applied sport psychologists 4 often conduct in partnership with other scientists. In doing so, scientist-practitioners often 5 seek guidance from the prevailing theoretical and/or empirical paradigms before applying this 6 knowledge to the practical problem at hand. However, this may sometimes take thinking in 7 an erroneous or less than optimum direction, especially in the special cases of elite 8 performers. In this regard, recent evidence suggests that there are significant advantages to 9 examining how skilled performers organise movement patterns on an intra-individual basis, 10 despite commonalities in patterns of co-ordination being evident in participants of similar 11 ability. For example, Chow, Davids, Button, and Koh, (2006) stated that if skilled 12 participants are grouped together for the purposes of movement analysis, effects of interest, 13 such as control strategies may become masked. 14 Support for pursuing applied sport psychology on a case-by-case basis is illustrated by 15 an increasing number of studies that demonstrated individual-specific findings with reference 16 to performers’ coordination, their responses to appropriate sources of information for 17 instruction and adaptation to physical stress. For example, Beavan, Gill, and Cook (2008a) 18 demonstrated that professional rugby union players with broadly similar training backgrounds 19 responded to group-prescribed resistance training through individual hormonal responses. It 20 was determined that certain players responded positively to some training stresses, but not to 21 other forms of resistance training. In a 3-week cross-over design, the same players alternated 22 between sessions that produced high and low levels of testosterone. It was found that 23 favoured","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"44 1","pages":"93-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choking under pressure debate:is there chaos in the brickyard?","authors":"Christopher Mesagno, D. Hill","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2013.44.294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.294","url":null,"abstract":"In this special issue of International Journal of Sport Psychology, Mesagno and Hill (2013) composed a position paper on choking, and consequently three experts commented on the manuscript, whereby a provocative debate developed to extend and help stimulate future choking research. Firstly, we would like to thank the contributors of the commentaries for providing a thought-provoking debate regarding current choking research. The aim of this final paper is to reflect on, and provide a final word to, the choking debate in this issue.","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":"288-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of perception-action coupling on perceptual decision-making in a self-paced far aiming task.","authors":"G. Paterson, J. Kamp, E. Bressan, G. Savelsbergh","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2013.44.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"44 1","pages":"179-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71288021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping decisions in volleyball: an ecological approach to decision-making in volleyball passing.","authors":"A. Barsingerhorn, F. Zaal, H. D. Poel, G. Pepping","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2013.44.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.197","url":null,"abstract":"To extend research on decision-making in sport we addressed the choices volleyball-players are faced with in a simple volleyball pass-return task. We manipulated the distance that eight experienced volleyball players had to cover for successful ball passing, and mapped their passing technique (i.e., overhead or underhand) and ball return accuracy in a choice condition. Passing accuracy was then compared with conditions in which reception technique was imposed by instruction. When players were free to choose their technique the landing zone of the ball influenced the choice of technique: When a ball landed further away, the adoption of underhand technique increased, especially for balls that landed in front of the participants. Furthermore, in all conditions the accuracy of the pass decreased with increasing distance to be covered. These results are discussed vis-a-vis the idea that player behavior is shaped by affordances (i.e., possibilities for action). It is argued that to understand decision-making in dynamic sport situations we need to understand how players deal with competing affordances.","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"44 1","pages":"197-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71288075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the use of situation and body information in goalkeeper actions during a soccer penalty kick","authors":"J. Navia, J. Kamp, M. Ruiz, S. Toledo","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2013.44.234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.234","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the contribution of situation information about a player’s preference to kick to either side of the goal on the goalkeeper’s performance in a soccer penalty kick. Nine goalkeepers were tested under different situational information conditions: a non-probability, an equal-probability (i.e., 50% of the kicks to either side of the goal), and two high-probability conditions (i.e., 80% to the right or left side). In the high-probability conditions, the goalkeepers’ performance tended to increase and significantly improved in terms of diving to the same side as the ball was directed. In addition, goalkeepers initiated their dive earlier in the high-probability conditions. Gaze analysis in four participants suggested that goalkeepers who relied more strongly on body information profited less from situational information. In conclusion, soccer goalkeepers can benefit from situational information about a penalty taker’s preferences, but these benefits may depend on the individual goalkeeper’s information-using profile.","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"44 1","pages":"234-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negative instructions and choking under pressure in aiming at a far target.","authors":"R. Oudejans, O. Binsch, F. C. Bakker","doi":"10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.310","url":null,"abstract":"Providing instructions to avoid an action may ironically increase the tendency to engage in that action, especially when attentional resources are taxed. In the perceptual-motor domain the role of anxiety in inducing such ironic effects has rarely been investigated even though anxiety both affects attention and plays a crucial role in performance decrements in sports (i.e., choking under pressure). Therefore, we investigated the combined effects of anxiety and negative instructions on perceptual-motor performance. Participants threw darts under one neutral instruction to hit bulls-eye and one negatively worded instruction while positioned either high or low on a climbing wall (i.e., with and without anxiety). Only the combination of high anxiety and the negative instruction led to a significant drop in performance. In line with theories on ironic processes and choking, the results indicate that when negative instructions and anxiety are combined, the likelihood of ironic effects and, thus, choking, is increased.","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"44 1","pages":"294-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploration of organizational stressors in Indian elite female athletes.","authors":"Divyata Sohal, Misha Gervis, D. Rhind","doi":"10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP.2013.44.565","url":null,"abstract":"Research on experiences of Indian athletes is limited. This is the first study that explored the organizational stressors experienced by Indian elite female athletes and the impact on their psychological well-being. Ten participants were interviewed on their experiences with sport organizations in preparation for international tournaments. Drawing on Arnold and Fletcherâ","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"71 1","pages":"565-585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. J. Thomson, Katie L Morton, S. R. Carlson, J. Rupert
{"title":"The contextual sensation seeking questionnaire for skiing and snowboarding (CSSQ-S) development of a sport specific scale","authors":"C. J. Thomson, Katie L Morton, S. R. Carlson, J. Rupert","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2012.43.033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2012.43.033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":"503-521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specific predictors of disordered eating among elite and non-elite gymnasts and ballet dancers.","authors":"Rita Francisco, I. Narciso, Madalena Alarcão","doi":"10.7352/IJSP2012.43.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2012.43.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54940,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":"479-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71287835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}