PSY 614 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Organizational Culture, Psy, Achievement Orientation
29 Nov 2017
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The factor most consistently distinguishing highly successful from less successful athletes is confidence. Self confidence the belief that you can successfully perform a desired behaviour. State self confidence something you feel today and therefore it might be unstable. Trait self confidence part of your personality and thus be very stable. Confidence is affected by the specific organizational culture as well as the general sociocultural forces surrounding sport. Self fulfilling prophecy expecting something to happen actually helps cause it to happen (expecting something to go wrong) The expectation of failure leads to actual failure, which lowers self image and increases expectations of future failure. Performance improves as the level of confidence increases up to an optimal point, whereupon further increases in confidence produce corresponding decrements in performance. i. e. there is an optimal level of self confidence. People strive for an individual, optimal confidence level but sometimes become either over confident or under confident.
