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- Bored of sports' Investigating the interactive role of engagement and
value as predictors of boredom in athletic training.-
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Abstract: Recent research has identified boredom as a guiding signal in goal-directed behavior. As boredom activates a search for more valuable activities, it can consequently challenge goal-directed behavior; this is also expected to be the case in the sporting context. Here, we examined the experience of boredom in athletic training for a competition among 153 athletes with a cross-sectional questionnaire. We developed the questionnaire based on theoretical approaches to boredom. Specifically, we considered two core triggers of boredom (i.e., the ability to remain engaged with the training and the value that athletes ascribe to the training). We found that the positive relationship between the difficulty of engagement in athletic training and the experience of boredom was moderated by the value ascribed to the training. In other words, it seems that the value ascribed to the training can play a protective role, in that high levels of value nullify the positive relationship between difficulty of engagement and boredom experienced in sports. Future research is needed to better understand the antecedents and consequences of boredom experiences in specific sporting contexts, which could be achieved, for example, by differentiating between individual and collective activities or competitions and training situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
PubDate: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1037/spy0000320
- Transitioning to competitive sport during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring
children’s experiences from a developmental perspective.-
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Abstract: Researchers have documented how athletes navigate transitions within high-performance sport; however, little is known about the transitions that youth athletes face in their athletic development. When studying youth sport populations, it is imperative to consider how sports experiences coincide with children’s changing psychosocial abilities. The purpose of this study was to explore how children’s psychosocial abilities interact with their sports participation as they attempt to navigate the transition from recreational to competitive sport. Seven children (Mage = 10 years, 6 females, 1 male) and their parents participated in a mixed methods study. Parents and children completed qualitative interviews and measures of the child’s perceived social and athletic competencies (Harter, 1985) at three time points across a 12-month period. Qualitative data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis, and quantitative data were integrated throughout the results. Each dyad had a unique transitional experience; some children transitioned into more competitive levels of sport, while others needed multiple attempts to qualify for new teams (i.e., multiple tryouts over 12 months), and other children did not transition into more competitive sport levels. Salient transition experiences, such as tryouts or meeting new teammates, presented children with opportunities to demonstrate psychosocial abilities such as social comparisons and self-evaluations with peers. Challenges for sports clubs due to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted children’s opportunities to transition in sport. This study provides initial insight into how young athletes and parents perceive and experience phases of their sport transition, and how children’s psychosocial abilities can play a role in the transition process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
PubDate: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1037/spy0000322
- Teamwork execution and team resilience: A multistudy examination of
reciprocal and longitudinal relationships.-
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Abstract: The purpose of this multistudy article was to examine relationships between variables within an input-mediator-outcome (IMO) framework of team effectiveness in sport over the course of a competitive season. In Study 1, 1,566 athletes (Mage = 22.1 years, SD = 5.2) from 104 teams completed measures of teamwork execution and team resilience at two timepoints (2 months apart) during a season. Multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) revealed significant, reciprocal, and positive relationships between teamwork execution and characteristics of resilience, as well as significant, reciprocal, and negative relationships between teamwork execution and vulnerability under pressure, from Time 1 (T1) to Time 2 (T2) at both the individual and team level. Study 2 built on these findings by testing propositions from the IMO model of team effectiveness. Measures of perceived athlete leadership quality (input; T1), teamwork execution and team resilience (mediators; T2), and team performance (outcome; Time 3 [T3]) were completed by 1,117 athletes (Mage = 24.8, SD = 5.6) within 92 teams over 8 months. MSEM showed perceived athlete leadership quality had significant positive associations with teamwork execution and characteristics of resilience at player and team levels, and a significant negative relationship with player-level vulnerability under pressure. Of the mediators assessed at T2, only teamwork execution had a significant and positive relationship with perceived team performance at T3, specifically at the player level. Our findings highlight the reciprocal relationship between teamwork execution and team resilience, the importance of athlete leadership in fostering these mediators, and the associations of those variables with perceptions of team performance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1037/spy0000316
- Revisiting recovery: Athlete-centered perspectives on the meanings of
recovery from elite endurance training.-
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Abstract: Effective recovery, the process of restoring performance capability in response to training, is essential for improving sport performance. Though recovery is theoretically complex, dynamic, and athlete-determined, it has often been operationalized in a limited scope centering on perspectives that are external to the athletes. The purpose of this study was to explore what recovery means to elite endurance-sport athletes by characterizing the experiences, processes, and purposes of recovery. Thirteen Canadian elite athletes (6 women, 7 men; aged 25–31 years; from 9 sports), each a participant in multiple Olympics/World Championships, completed two semistructured interviews discussing their perspectives on recovery, between which they kept a week-long activity journal of their recovery-related actions and thoughts. Through inductive reflexive thematic analysis, we created two overarching themes supported by six themes. First, athletes described how recovery encompassed a wide range of potential approaches, which spanned multiple dimensions of feelings, levels of focus (i.e., a focus dial), and personal solutions. Second, several processes shaped how the athletes acted on or experienced recovery within those potential approaches, as described in themes of “defining short- and long-term purposes”, “breaking and engaging”, and “negotiating and prioritizing”. These results expand on previous recovery research by adding the detail and nuance of athlete perspectives on how they engage with and experience recovery states and approaches. Athletes play a central role in defining and shaping their recovery, and these findings hold implications for how theories of self-regulation and expertise may contribute to further understanding athlete-centered recovery in high-performance endurance sport. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
PubDate: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT
DOI: 10.1037/spy0000318
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