Week 10 Flashcards
(50 cards)
1
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Mental health and sport
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- despite the emphasis on either performance or wellbeing, it is less common to explore these two outcomes simultaneously
2
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What is thriving?
A
- the joint experience of development and success
- enhanced physical, psychological and social well-being and succeeding in relevant life domains
- sustained optimal performance and well-being
3
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How are thriving and resilience similar?
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- positive adaptations to adverse events
4
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How is resilience different from thriving?
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- resilience= the behavioural capacity to maintain the same level of functioning exhibited prior to an adverse events
- thriving= enhanced level of functioning
5
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What are the two main differences between thriving and resilience?
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- Thriving is an improvement
- Thriving does not require an adverse event
6
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What are the outcomes of thriving?
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- growth mindset
- enhanced self-efficacy and motivation
- sport retention
7
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Factors that influence thriving
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- Personal enablers
- Contextual enablers
8
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Personal enablers of thriving
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- optimism
- intrinsic motivation
- proactive personality
- resilient qualities
- self-regulatory skills and coping mechanisms
9
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Contexual enablers of thriving
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- supportive social agents
- challenging and psychologically safe environment
- attachment and trust
10
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How is sport research on thriving limited?
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- has solely examined
thriving at the individual athlete level - need to consider how the people around us increase the likelihood that we will thrive
11
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Empirical support for collective thriving
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- originates in the cognitions, affect and behaviours of individuals
- a shared emotional and psychological state that is attributable to the group and influenced by context
- the joint experience of learning and vitality
12
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Preliminary findings- positive outcomes of collective thriving
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- enhanced team resiliency
- enhanced goal achievement
- enhanced team performance
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Preliminary findings- contextual enablers of collective thriving
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- servant leaders that are empathetic, nurturing, and assist followers in fulfilling their needs
- authentic leaders who demonstrate high ethical morals and work collaboratively with their team members
14
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Key considerations and fundamental questions
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- How best should collective thriving be best conceptualized?
- How should collective thriving be measured?
- Does collective thriving have unique enablers?
- Do we need team member consensus?
- Are some team members more influential than others?
15
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Proposed approaches to conceptualizing thriving as group-level construct in interdependent sport
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- Common thriving
- Team thriving
- Collective thriving
16
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Common thriving
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- individual perception of self
17
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Team thriving
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- individual perception of team
18
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Collective thriving
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- individual integrated perceptions of team
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Common thriving example
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“I am satisfied with my performance today”
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Team thriving example
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” I am satisfied with my team’s performance today”
21
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Collective thriving example
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” we as a team are satisfied with our performance today”
22
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What is trust?
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- the willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control that other party
23
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What are the elements of trust?
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- Vulnerable
- Risk
- Lack of control
24
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Aspects of perceived trustworthiness
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- Ability
- Benevolence
- Integrity
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Aspects of perceived trustworthiness: ability
- do they have the capacity, capability, knowledge?
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Aspects of perceived trustworthiness: benevolence
- do they have my best interest at heart?
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Aspects of perceived trustworthiness: integrity
- moral values align with yours
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What do the aspects of perceived trustworthiness lead to?
- trust
- risk taking
- positive outcomes
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What impacts trust?
- propensity to trust
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Propensity to trust
- where do you fall on trust continuum?
- every person has a diff level of trust in every relationship
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Performance related outcomes of trust
- organizational citizenship behaviours
- commitment, cohesiveness, satisfaction and information processing
- knowledge sharing
- innovation
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Health related outcomes of trust
- increase self-disclosure of mental health related problems
- facilitate and promote help-seeking behaviours
- enhance perceptions of psychological safety
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What is psychological safety?
- shared belief that is held by team members that it is safe for interpersonal risk taking
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What would a not psychologically safe environment look like?
- fosters a fear of failure
- increases practice of blaming others
- decreases interpersonal risk taking
- decreases willingness to speak up & share
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What would a psychologically safe environment look like?
- increases interpersonal risk taking
- increases authenticity
- increased participation
- increases collaboration, learning & innovation
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How does psychological safety increase participation?
Increases desire to
- ask questions
- seek feedback
- discuss mistakes
- experiment
- fail in experiments
- offer opposing perspectives
- raise concerns and propose novel and unorthodox ideas
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Trust vs psychological safety
- trust is on individual level
- psychological safety is on group level
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Trust vs psychological safety examples
- trust: do I think teammates A is trustworthy?
- psychological safety: will my team give me the benefit of the doubt?
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Psychological safety in sport (Vella et al. 2022) - purpose
Conduct a conceptual analysis to:
- define psychological safety and its attributes
- highlight antecedents and consequences
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Psychological safety in sport (Vella et al. 2022) - conceptualizations
- practice that increases safe peer group interactions
- absence of threats, fear, and abuse
- discuss alongside physical safety
- belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking
- an environment that allows youth to feel free of psychological harm, accepted and respected
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Psychological safety in sport (Vella et al. 2022) - psychological safety definition
- perception that one is protected from, or unlikely to be at risk of, psychological harm in sport
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Defining attributes of psychological safety
- structure (ie. organizations)
- promotion of risk-taking behaviour
- absence of psychological threat or harm
- positive interpersonal relationships
- positive emotional state
- sense of social justice
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Individual outcomes of psychologically safe environments
- personal development
- mental health
- motivation to continue sport participation
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Team outcomes of psychologically safe environments
- social connections/climate
- team effectiveness/performance
- learning
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How can we promote psychological safety in sport?
1. Organizational culture
2. Coaching behaviours and relationships
3. Leadership behaviours
4. Social interaction
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Organizational culture
- clarity of roles
- promotes diversity
- views youth positively
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Coaching behaviours and relationships
- adaptive behaviours
- promotes athlete well-being
- trust in coach
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Leadership behaviours
- positive role models
- fair and ethical
- inclusive
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Social interaction
- sense of belongingness and relatedness
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Key take-aways
- thriving= development and success; well being and performance not mutually exclusive
- one's willingness to be vulnerable is key to developing high quality relationships and promoting thriving in sport
- psychological safety holds great value for developing sporting environments that are conductive to risk taking
