Browsing by Subject "TENNIS PLAYERS"
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The effects of instructional and motivational self-talk on students' motor task performance in physical education
(2011)Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the effects of instructional and motivational self-talk on students' motor task performance in a chest pass and a modified push-ups test in physical education. Design: The ... -
Enhancing performance and skill acquisition in novice basketball players with instructional self-talk
(2002)This study examined the effectiveness of instructional self-talk on acquiring and performing three basketball skills (dribbling, passing, and shooting). Sixty-two young, novice players were organized into two groups. The ... -
Goal-directed and undirected self-talk: Exploring a new perspective for the study of athletes' self-talk
(2014)Objectives: The present study aimed to introduce the distinction between goal-directed and undirected thoughts used in general psychology into the automatic self-talk paradigm used in sport psychology. In particular, the ... -
Mechanisms underlying the self-talk-performance relationship: The effects of motivational self-talk on self-confidence and anxiety
(2009)Objectives: The present study examined the effects of motivational self-talk on self-confidence, anxiety, and task performance in young athletes. Methods: Participants were 72 tennis players. The experiment was conducted ... -
The moderating effects of self-talk content on self-talk functions
(2007)The purpose of the study was to examine whether different types of self-talk serve different functions. Twenty-one female swimming class students were initially tested on an experimental water polo precision task. After a ... -
Self-talk and Competitive Sport Performance
(2014)The purpose of the present study was to test the effectiveness of a 10-week self-talk intervention on competitive performance in young swimmers. Participants were 41 swimmers (M age 14.59, SD = 1.58years), whose performance ... -
Self-Talk and Sports Performance: A Meta-Analysis
(2011)Based on the premise that what people think influences their actions, self-talk strategies have been developed to direct and facilitate human performance. In this article, we present a meta-analytic review of the effects ... -
Self-talk in the swimming pool: The effects of self-talk on thought content and performance on water-polo tasks
(2004)The present study examined the effect of instructional and motivational self-talk on the occurrence of interfering thoughts and performance on two water-polo tasks with similar characteristics performed in the same ...