Relationship between elite athletes´ psychological skills and their training in those skills

18.8.2019

Recently, the RU student, Eyþór I. Einarsson, Hafrún Kristjánsdóttir and Jose M. Saavedra have been published an interesting paper in Nordic Psychology. This journal has an Impact factor of 1.000 and it is ranked in 94th place out of 137 journals (Psychology, Multidisciplinary) Social Science Edition-2018, Journal Citation Reports. The objectives of this study were (i) to analyse how differences in psychological skills among elite athletes depend on sex and psychological skills training (PST), and (ii) to identify predictors of whether an elite athlete has sought PST. Three hundred and ninety six [deleted for blinding purposes] members of youth and senior national teams (49.2% men 21.4±7.1 years old) in basketball, equestrian sports, football, golf, handball, and weightlifting participated in the study. The participants completed a background information questionnaire and the Test of Performance Strategies questionnaire (TOPS). The former collected information about age, sex, sport practiced, and whether or not the respondent used or was interested in using PST. The latter assessed the psychological skills the respondent used in training and competition. An independent-samples t-test was used to compare the means on the TOPS sub-scales between sexes and between the use or not of PST. A forward stepwise logistic regression model was constructed to determine which of the variables (age, sex, TOPS sub-scales) could predict whether or not the sportsperson had used PST. PST was used by 42% of the respondents, but the 90% were interested in this type of training. Golfers used PST the most (56%), and men used PS more than women, especially in competition. It was possible to correctly classify 59% of the cases (23% of the variance explained) as to whether or not the participant used PST using just five variables: relaxation in practice, negative thinking in competition, age, self-talk in competition, and imagery in practice.

The article was developed from the Eyþór Bachelor thesis. This is a example of the quality of BSc thesis at RU.

More information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19012276.2019.1629992

Relationship between elite athletes´ psychological skills and their training in those skills

18.8.2019

Recently, the RU student, Eyþór I. Einarsson, Hafrún Kristjánsdóttir and Jose M. Saavedra have been published an interesting paper in Nordic Psychology. This journal has an Impact factor of 1.000 and it is ranked in 94th place out of 137 journals (Psychology, Multidisciplinary) Social Science Edition-2018, Journal Citation Reports. The objectives of this study were (i) to analyse how differences in psychological skills among elite athletes depend on sex and psychological skills training (PST), and (ii) to identify predictors of whether an elite athlete has sought PST. Three hundred and ninety six [deleted for blinding purposes] members of youth and senior national teams (49.2% men 21.4±7.1 years old) in basketball, equestrian sports, football, golf, handball, and weightlifting participated in the study. The participants completed a background information questionnaire and the Test of Performance Strategies questionnaire (TOPS). The former collected information about age, sex, sport practiced, and whether or not the respondent used or was interested in using PST. The latter assessed the psychological skills the respondent used in training and competition. An independent-samples t-test was used to compare the means on the TOPS sub-scales between sexes and between the use or not of PST. A forward stepwise logistic regression model was constructed to determine which of the variables (age, sex, TOPS sub-scales) could predict whether or not the sportsperson had used PST. PST was used by 42% of the respondents, but the 90% were interested in this type of training. Golfers used PST the most (56%), and men used PS more than women, especially in competition. It was possible to correctly classify 59% of the cases (23% of the variance explained) as to whether or not the participant used PST using just five variables: relaxation in practice, negative thinking in competition, age, self-talk in competition, and imagery in practice.

The article was developed from the Eyþór Bachelor thesis. This is a example of the quality of BSc thesis at RU.

More information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19012276.2019.1629992

Relationship between elite athletes´ psychological skills and their training in those skills

18.8.2019

Recently, the RU student, Eyþór I. Einarsson, Hafrún Kristjánsdóttir and Jose M. Saavedra have been published an interesting paper in Nordic Psychology. This journal has an Impact factor of 1.000 and it is ranked in 94th place out of 137 journals (Psychology, Multidisciplinary) Social Science Edition-2018, Journal Citation Reports. The objectives of this study were (i) to analyse how differences in psychological skills among elite athletes depend on sex and psychological skills training (PST), and (ii) to identify predictors of whether an elite athlete has sought PST. Three hundred and ninety six [deleted for blinding purposes] members of youth and senior national teams (49.2% men 21.4±7.1 years old) in basketball, equestrian sports, football, golf, handball, and weightlifting participated in the study. The participants completed a background information questionnaire and the Test of Performance Strategies questionnaire (TOPS). The former collected information about age, sex, sport practiced, and whether or not the respondent used or was interested in using PST. The latter assessed the psychological skills the respondent used in training and competition. An independent-samples t-test was used to compare the means on the TOPS sub-scales between sexes and between the use or not of PST. A forward stepwise logistic regression model was constructed to determine which of the variables (age, sex, TOPS sub-scales) could predict whether or not the sportsperson had used PST. PST was used by 42% of the respondents, but the 90% were interested in this type of training. Golfers used PST the most (56%), and men used PS more than women, especially in competition. It was possible to correctly classify 59% of the cases (23% of the variance explained) as to whether or not the participant used PST using just five variables: relaxation in practice, negative thinking in competition, age, self-talk in competition, and imagery in practice.

The article was developed from the Eyþór Bachelor thesis. This is a example of the quality of BSc thesis at RU.

More information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19012276.2019.1629992

Relationship between elite athletes´ psychological skills and their training in those skills

18.8.2019

Recently, the RU student, Eyþór I. Einarsson, Hafrún Kristjánsdóttir and Jose M. Saavedra have been published an interesting paper in Nordic Psychology. This journal has an Impact factor of 1.000 and it is ranked in 94th place out of 137 journals (Psychology, Multidisciplinary) Social Science Edition-2018, Journal Citation Reports. The objectives of this study were (i) to analyse how differences in psychological skills among elite athletes depend on sex and psychological skills training (PST), and (ii) to identify predictors of whether an elite athlete has sought PST. Three hundred and ninety six [deleted for blinding purposes] members of youth and senior national teams (49.2% men 21.4±7.1 years old) in basketball, equestrian sports, football, golf, handball, and weightlifting participated in the study. The participants completed a background information questionnaire and the Test of Performance Strategies questionnaire (TOPS). The former collected information about age, sex, sport practiced, and whether or not the respondent used or was interested in using PST. The latter assessed the psychological skills the respondent used in training and competition. An independent-samples t-test was used to compare the means on the TOPS sub-scales between sexes and between the use or not of PST. A forward stepwise logistic regression model was constructed to determine which of the variables (age, sex, TOPS sub-scales) could predict whether or not the sportsperson had used PST. PST was used by 42% of the respondents, but the 90% were interested in this type of training. Golfers used PST the most (56%), and men used PS more than women, especially in competition. It was possible to correctly classify 59% of the cases (23% of the variance explained) as to whether or not the participant used PST using just five variables: relaxation in practice, negative thinking in competition, age, self-talk in competition, and imagery in practice.

The article was developed from the Eyþór Bachelor thesis. This is a example of the quality of BSc thesis at RU.

More information: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19012276.2019.1629992