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Inaugural Lecture Stress in Sport: From choking to the yips Professor Richard Mullen

Inaugural Lecture Stress in Sport: From choking to the yips Professor Richard Mullen Division of Sport, Health and Exercise. Overview. Research: Anxiety in sport, implicit and explicit learning, mental skills training Teaching: Postgraduate students

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Inaugural Lecture Stress in Sport: From choking to the yips Professor Richard Mullen

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  1. Inaugural Lecture Stress in Sport: From choking to the yips Professor Richard Mullen Division of Sport, Health and Exercise

  2. Overview • Research: Anxiety in sport, implicit and explicit learning, mental skills training • Teaching: Postgraduate students • Applied work: Coach education, mental skills training with teams and athletes

  3. The Sport Experiment The technical skills of the contestants, if the experiment has been set up correctly, cancel each other out. The sport experiment is not concerned with the skill that the subject has brought with him (sic)to the contest. His skill is not really at issue . . . The deciding factor is not his skill, but his ability to perform it under stress. (Patmore, 1986)

  4. “Choking” The “Yips” “Dartitis” Neurological Psychological

  5. Anxiety • Evolutionary mechanism • Mental component • Physical component • Effects?

  6. Some issues • Relative novices • Effort? • Performance measures

  7. The expert paradigm

  8. Heart Rate Variability

  9. VLF: 0.00 - 0.07 LF: 0.07 - 0.15 HF: 0.15 - 0.40

  10. Applied implications • Goal setting strategies • Outcome • Performance • Process • Part process goals • Holistic process goals

  11. Mullen & Hardy (2010)

  12. Basketball free throw

  13. Golf putting

  14. Teaching • Post graduate students • Andrea Faull (UWIC): Conscious processing • Eleri Sian Jones (Glamorgan): Conscious processing. Measuring performance anxiety. • Claire-Marie Roberts (Glamorgan): Tranistions out of elite professional sport. • Giorgios Loizou (Brunel): Circumplex models of emotion. • MPhil: Hayley Brown • Stuart Jarvis • Dean Parsons

  15. Research at Glamorgan • Paul Rainer: Fundamental movement skills • Dave Adams: Reflection and curriculum development in football • Morgan Williams and Ryland Morgans: Fatigue and performance indicators in football

  16. Applied Work

  17. Inaugural Lecture Stress in sport: From choking to the yips Thank you for listening

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