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Sports confidence
Defining confidence…
- Degree of certainty one possess about ability to be successful
- Belief in ability to have appropriate resources to be successful at a specific behavior
to achieve a certain objective
- Rooted in beliefs and expectations

State of mind
• High confidence
- Relaxed, composed
- Pumped, excited
- Prepared
- Focused on self
- Focused on my job
- Calm & clear headed
- Not thinking about event too much

• Low confidence
- Tense and anxious
- Nervous, unhappy
- Uncertainty
- Worried about competitors
- Doubts
- Distracted
- Focusing on the wrong things

Self-efficacy theory
• Bandura (1977, 1997)
“One's belief that a certain level of performance can be attained” (Bandura, 1977)
“… beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the course of action required to
produce given attainments” (Bandura, 1997)
• A situation-specific form of self-confidence
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relationship between competitive orientation and SC-state (Martin & Gill,
1991)
- SC-trait a better predictor of sport behaviour and performance than SC-state
(Roberts & Vealey, 1992)
- Dispositional-state approach difficult to validate
- More likely that confidence on a continuum from trait like to state like…
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did not account for impact of social and organisational factors on the
development and manifestation of confidence in athletes”
- Coaching behaviours and expectations of significant others influence levels of
confidence




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