Kinesiology 3474A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Control Group
13 Apr 2017
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Chapter 10 coping with emotions in sport. Emotions are sometimes conceptualized as pre-performance and post-performance emotions. Although anxiety can be conceptualized as a pre-performance emotion, other negative emotions are more readily thought of as post-performance emotions. An athlete may feel angry at having performed below potential, or ashamed of a particularly poor performance in front of the home crowd. The consequences of emotions for individual athletes can be categorized as physiological, cognitive and motivational (uphill et al. , 2009) Of the physiological consequences, arousal has been considered the most often. It is likely that the arousal accompanying some emotions may be of sufficient intensity to effect sport performance. A simple relationship, however, b/w the physiological arousal accompanying e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d athletes" pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e is u(cid:374)likely. A(cid:374) inverted u relationship: as arousal increases, performance increases until arousal reaches an optimal point, then increased arousal leads to decreased performance. However, this inverted u relationship is too simple.
