Attitudes in sport

• Attitudes 


  Ideas charged with emotion which predisposes a class of actions to a particular social situation
• Attitudes are formed ...

  1. Experiences - either pleasant or unpleasant
  2. Attitudes of the people around us
• Positive experiences

  • Success and achievement
  • Support and Rapport
  • Growth and learning
• Negative experiences

  • Failure and setbacks
  • pressure and stress
  • Conflict or adversity
• Component of Attitude

  • Cognitive
  • Affective
  • Behavioural
• Changing attitudes

  • Cognitive - updating knowledge or providing a person with new info can change the cognitive component
  • Affective - give a person new and positive experiences can modify the affective component
  • Behavioural - success and reinforcement, if a skill is simplified it can make the execution easier
• Cognitive Dissonance

  • A state of mental conflict
  • If a person holds 2 ideas that oppose and conflict each other an element of discomfort arises
  • Emotional conflict is called 'dissonance'
  • To reduce the feeling of dissonance one of the conflicting ideas needs to be reduced, therefore changing attitude
• Persuasive communication

  • Used to foster positive attitudes
  • Persuader needs to be knowledgeable, trustworthy and understand the recipient
  • Message clear, unambiguous and balanced
  • Recipient open to change, accepting and understands
  • Situation safe and non-threatening