Week 5 - Anxiety and Confidence Flashcards
(13 cards)
Define anxiety.
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
It is also a protective mechanism of the body from a potential threat or danger
What are the different forms of anxiety in sports?
- competitive anxiety
- injury anxiety
- social anxiety
- social physique anxiety
What is sports anxiety characterised by?
By fear of…
- failure
- the unkown
- -ve evaluation of others
- injuries
How is anxiety developed?
From a social psychological approach…
* pressure develops through situative performance rewards
Moderated by…
- audience
- rewards and punishment
- competitions
- personal significance of task
Provide some Simone Biles facts.
- born 1997
- 11 Olympic medals
- 30 world championship medals
- most decorated gynamist in Hx
- 5 elements ingymnastics named after her
Mother with drug/alcohol addition, no contact with father and herself and 3 siblings adopted when she was 6
What does mental toughness and resilience correlate with?
Comes from enormous pressure on elite athletes
* athletes with difficult background or traumatic experiences stories are more successful
e.g.
- loss of family member
- terrorism
- serious diseases
- natural disasters
Better resources to deal with challenges
What is prognosis training?
- training ot perform at given point in time
- ideal for athletes who only perform well in practice sessions
- quality over quantity
How does prognosis training work?
- athlete receives task from coach
- athlete makes prognosis on own task performance
- athlete performs task at given point in time
- athlete discusses with coach whether prognosis has been achieved
- reasons for difference between prognosis and perofrmance are discussed
Realistic self-Ax, confidence
- repeat training with adjusted prognosis
What is simulation of competition and how does it work?
Trains uniqueness of competition
- coach decides on task and time when task is performed
- athlete takes time to prepare
–> leads to rumination and -ve thougths - performance of task at time chosen by coach
- analysis of performance and preparation of performance
- combination between competitive simulation and prognosis training possible
- intensification of trainiing through +ve or -ve consequences
- make sure athletes know WHY there are +ve / -ve outcomes
What do athletes mainly focus on?
- practice means working on movement and actions
- often automatically focus on mistakes
- focusing on mistakes fosters fear of failure
- brain needs dopamine ot learn –> praise
-praise specific action - focus on what athlete has achieved and what they can improve
- create +ve training environment
What is the “Sachet Full of Strengths” intervention?
- write down and collect strengths
- encourage when its hard to name strengths
- great homework Ex
- can be used as a remineder of strengths
What are some other interventions that can help with anxiety and confidence?
“Developing strengths” - draw a hand and write strengths on fingers and hands
“The inner team” - 3 categories….
1. a characteristic/trait about yourself
2. a sentence/phrase that represents this characteristic/trait
3. how does it benefit you?
“Journey to your strengths” - an imaginary journey. Memory of situation in which athlete felt strong -> diving into that situation and creating a strength image that can be used whenever needed.
“The winning formula” - present tense, +ve connotation, simple sentences, repeat on regular basis, should feel good and be associated with confidence. e.g. “I am really good at this”
“Problems as pseudo giants” - if we face them, they become smaller. When solved, they appear less threatening
What is an intervention that can help with anxiety?
“Name your anxiety”
- What is the person afraid of?
- What is the worst-case scenario?
- How would this feel?
- How likely will this happen?
- What does anxiety look like? (tall, small etc)
- Does anxiety have a name?
- How does anxiety no feel that we talked about it?
