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Anxiety and Arousal in Sport

Anxiety and Arousal in Sport. Basic Questions. What is the relationship between anxiety, arousal, and sport performance? How pumped-up or how calm should one be???. Definitions. Arousal A physiological activation of a person (from coma to intense activation)

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Anxiety and Arousal in Sport

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  1. Anxiety and Arousal in Sport

  2. Basic Questions • What is the relationship between anxiety, arousal, and sport performance? • How pumped-up or how calm should one be???

  3. Definitions • Arousal • A physiological activation of a person (from coma to intense activation) • Neutral until interpreted, when it is felt as positive or negative • Under control of the ANS (autonomic nervous system)

  4. Neurophysiology of arousal

  5. HR, BP, RR Arousal Biochemicals ( hormones) • Palmar sweating & GSR • Muscle Tension (EMG)

  6. Anxiety • How do athletes experience anxiety? What are the symptoms?

  7. State vs. Trait anxiety • Situation-specific (State Anxiety) • vs. • Generalized anxiety (Trait Anxiety)

  8. Experiencing anxiety Emotional/Cognitive Anxiety components Physiological Behavioral

  9. Measuring anxiety Emotional/Cognitive (self-report inventories) Anxiety Physiological (arousal measures) Behavioral (observation)

  10. Back to our questions... • What is the relationship between anxiety, arousal, and sport performance? • How pumped-up or how calm should one be???

  11. Inverted-U • “The relationship between arousal, anxiety, and performance is curvilinear and in the shape of an inverted-U.” • For any task, there is an optimal level of arousal/anxiety depending on the sport, situation, and individual.

  12. Kicker Psychology http://espn.go.com/pdf/2012/0306/mag_e_neuronfl-illo-text.pdf Billy Cundiff

  13. Kicker Psychology http://espn.go.com/pdf/2012/0306/mag_e_neuronfl-illo-text.pdf

  14. Why do athletes "choke?" • reasons...?? • Explanatory model (A-B-C-D-E) • A = Athlete (what he/she brings to the situation) • B = Ballgame (the actual situation) • C = Cognitive appraisal • D = Dread & Dry mouth • (the emotional & physiological responses) • E - Execution (the sports performance)

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