Confidence

• Self confidence 


  Belief of certainty individuals possess about their ability
• Sport confidence 


  Belief of certainty individuals possess about their ability to be successful in sport
• Self esteem 


  Feeling of self-worth that determines how valuable and competent we feel
• self efficacy 


  specific type of self-confidence and relates to a persons perception of their standard of ability in specific situations
• High self efficacy

  • Highly involved in the whole game
  • Approach behaviour- takes risks
  • Mastery orientation
  • positive internal attribution
  • Resilience
• Low self efficacy

  • Rarely involved in game
  • Learned helplessness
  • Negative internal attributes
• Baduras theory 


  A performer makes judgements with regard to their capabilities to perform a specific task or deal with a certain situation.
• Baduras theory 


  A performer makes judgements with regard to their capabilities to perform a specific task or deal with a certain situation.

  a performers level of self-efficacy will effect:

  • choice of activity
  • amount of effort
  • level of persistence
• Banduras theory 


  Model

  
• performance accomplishment 


  experience success can raise confidence that can influence performance/ remind about success
• vicarious experiences 


  refers to what we observe. seeing others if a similar level succeed will raise confidence
• verbal persuasion 


  encouragement / positive reinforcement can raise confidence
• emotional arousal 


  the perceived level of arousal can raise confidence / controlling arousal will help confidence
• trait sport confidence 


  relates to a generalised beliefs of an individual about the extent to which their ability will bring about success across a wide range of sport
• state sport confidence 


  relates to an individuals belief about the extent to which their ability will bring success to one particular specific situation
• vealey’s model of sport confidence 


  model