Enhancing mental toughness and performance under pressure in elite young cricketers: A 2-year longitudinal intervention.

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Bell ◽  
Lew Hardy ◽  
Stuart Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Toughness ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

Age and Performance Under Pressure

2012 ◽  
pp. 134-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold O. Fried ◽  
Loren W. Tauer
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Mental Ability ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Athletic Ability ◽  
Front End ◽  
Ladies Professional Golf Association ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

This article explores how well an individual manages his or her own talent to achieve high performance in an individual sport. Its setting is the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). The order-m approach is explained. Additionally, the data and the empirical findings are presented. The inputs measure fundamental golfing athletic ability. The output measures success on the LPGA tour. The correlation coefficient between earnings per event and the ability to perform under pressure is 0.48. The careers of golfers occur on the front end of the age distribution. There is a classic trade-off between the inevitable deterioration in the mental ability to handle the pressure and experience gained with time. The ability to perform under pressure peaks at age 37.

Injury, Sleep, Mood And Performance And The Role Of Mental Toughness During An Arctic Ultra-marathon

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Russell Martindale ◽  
Scott Graham ◽  
Chris Connaboy ◽  
Mairi McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Toughness ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Mental Toughness in Sport: Motivational Antecedents and Associations With Performance and Psychological Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Mahoney ◽  
Daniel F. Gucciardi ◽  
Nikos Ntoumanis ◽  
Cliff J. Mallet
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
And Performance

We argue that basic psychological needs theory (BPNT) offers impetus to the value of mental toughness as a mechanism for optimizing human functioning. We hypothesized that psychological needs satisfaction (thwarting) would be associated with higher (lower) levels of mental toughness, positive affect, and performance and lower (higher) levels of negative affect. We also expected that mental toughness would be associated with higher levels of positive affect and performance and lower levels of negative affect. Further, we predicted that coaching environments would be related to mental toughness indirectly through psychological needs and that psychological needs would indirectly relate with performance and affect through mental toughness. Adolescent cross-country runners (136 male and 85 female, Mage = 14.36) completed questionnaires pertaining to BPNT variables, mental toughness, and affect. Race times were also collected. Our findings supported our hypotheses. We concluded that BPNT is generative in understanding some of the antecedents and consequences of mental toughness and is a novel framework useful for understanding mental toughness.

scholarly journals Mental toughness and performance strategies of martial artists in practice and competition

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Atefeh Beheshti ◽  
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Hassan Gharayagh Zandi ◽  
Zahra Fathirezaie ◽  
Fatemeh Heidari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Emotional Control ◽  
Self Talk ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Strategies

Abstract This study’s objective was to analyze the relationship between mental toughness and martial artists’ performance strategies. Two hundred athletes (male: 105, female: 95) with an age range of 18-36 years (mean:25.12, s=4.96) who competed at university to the national standard of martial arts participated in this study. Participants answered mental toughness questionnaires and performance strategies inventory. The Pearson correlation results showed a positive and significant relationship between mental toughness and automaticity, goal-setting, imagery, self-talk, and emotional control, and a negative and significant relationship between mental toughness and attentional control in practice. Furthermore, there is a positive and significant relationship between mental toughness and activation, relaxation, self-talk, imagery, goal-setting, and emotional control in the competition. The multiple linear regression analysis results showed that goal-setting and imagery in practice and competition, self-talk in practice, and relaxation in the competition could predict mental toughness. In analyzing the subscales of mental toughness, it was concluded that tough emotions could be loaded on eight subscales of performance strategies. In the Independent-Sample T-Test, the significant differences related to gender were that men reported higher levels of self-talk (t=3.24, p<0.001), automaticity (t=2.76, p<0.006), goal-setting (t=2.63, p<0.009), imagery (t=2.18, p<0.03) and relaxation (t=2.17, p<0.03) than women.

scholarly journals I Am Great, but Only When I Also Want to Dominate: Maladaptive Narcissism Moderates the Relationship Between Adaptive Narcissism and Performance Under Pressure

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335
Author(s):  
Shuge Zhang ◽  
Ross Roberts ◽  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Andrew Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Motor Tasks ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
Psychophysiological Response ◽  
Task Processing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

Narcissism–performance research has focused on grandiose narcissism but has not examined the interaction between its so-called adaptive (reflecting overconfidence) and maladaptive (reflecting a domineering orientation) components. In this research, the authors tested interactions between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism using two motor tasks (basketball and golf in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) and a cognitive task (letter transformation in Experiment 3). Across all experiments, adaptive narcissism predicted performance under pressure only when maladaptive narcissism was high. In the presence of maladaptive narcissism, adaptive narcissism also predicted decreased pre-putt time in Experiment 2 and an adaptive psychophysiological response in Experiment 3, reflecting better processing efficiency. Findings suggest that individuals high in both aspects of narcissism perform better under pressure thanks to superior task processing. In performance contexts, the terms “adaptive” and “maladaptive”—adopted from social psychology—are oversimplistic and inaccurate. The authors believe that “self-inflated narcissism” and “dominant narcissism” are better monikers for these constructs.

scholarly journals Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Gregory Cowden
Keyword(s):  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Achievement Level ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
And Performance

Background:Mental toughness (MT) is often referred to as one of the most important psychological attributes underpinning the success of athletes. Although selected studies have examined this common supposition, research in this area has yet to be synthesized.Objective:The purpose of this study was to review the quantitative literature on MT, competitive standard, achievement level, and performance (competitive and non-competitive) in sport.Method:Searches using a specified key term were performed in 10 databases during August 2016. Following an initial screening of the unique records that were identified (N = 1025), 19 peer-reviewed articles met the eligibility criteria for inclusion in the review.Results:The majority of MT-competitive standard studies (N = 10) found total (66.7%) or subcomponent (71.4%) MT differences, with mentally tougher athletes participating at higher levels of competition. Of the remaining studies (N = 9), most indicated (77.8%) mentally tougher athletes tend to achieve more or perform better.Conclusion:Collectively, the results point to mentally tougher athletes’ superior levels of success. The findings are discussed alongside the limitations associated with this part of the current MT in sport literature, with several important areas outlined for scholars to consider and pursue when conducting future research.

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