Self Confidence Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is self confidence?
The belief that you can successfully perform a desired behaviour
What can self confidence do to increase performance?
Arouses positive emotions
Facilitates concentration
Increases effort
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? What levels of confidence does it happen at?
Expecting something to happen can actually help cause it to happen
Can happen at both high AND low levels of confidence
How can anxiety or setbacks help performance?
In small doses they can help maintain motivation to get better
What are the four components of Vealey’s sport confidence model?
Factors influencing sport confidence
Sources of sport confidence
Constructs of sport confidence
Consequences of sport confidence
What are some of the factors that influence sport confidence in Vealey’s model?
Organizational culture
Demographics
Personality characteristics
What are the three general categories of sources of sport confidence?
Achievement
Self-regulation
Social climate
What are the consequences of sport confidence?
The ABC triangle
Affect
Behaviour
Cognition
What is self-efficacy?
The perception of one’s ability to perform a certain task successfully
It is situation specific self-confidence
What is the importance of self-efficacy on performance?
Given sufficient skill and motivation, performance will depend on the individual’s self-efficacy
What is the number one source of self-efficacy?
Previous performance accomplishments
What did Feltz discover in the relationship of self-efficacy in beginner divers?
Feltz found that there was a reciprocal relationship between self-efficacy and performance as more dives were done
The more trials that happened, the more performance became an influence of self-efficacy that the reciprocal
