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Seeing Things in a Different Light: Assessing the Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention upon the Further Appraisals and Performance of Golfers
Rich Neil,
Sheldon Hanton,
Stephen Mellalieu
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 106 - 130
Swansea University Author: Stephen Mellalieu
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/10413200.2012.658901
Abstract
Seeing Things in a Different Light: Assessing the Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention upon the Further Appraisals and Performance of Golfers
| Published in: | Journal of Applied Sport Psychology |
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| ISSN: | 1041-3200 1533-1571 |
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2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12567 |
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Originality stems from the study being the first experimental intervention to examine Lazarus’ (1991) cognitive motivational relational theory of stress and emotion in a sports context. Its significance relates to the findings supporting the theory’s proposed mechanisms as to how a cognitive-behavioral intervention influences athlete appraisals (i.e., emotional orientation) of their emotions towards upcoming performance and the subsequent effect on actual performance. A number of applied implications for psychologists and coaches’ stress management goal setting practices with athletes are identified. For rigour the experiment was conducted in situ using a high ecological validity design over an prolonged period with collection of data on a number of psychological variables, including indices of performance |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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1 |
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106 |
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130 |