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TY - JOUR
T1 - Confidence-sourcing among amateur soccer players
T2 - interpreting time, place and stimulus-relevance
AU - Miller, Paul Kenneth
AU - George, Robert
AU - Nicholson, Steven
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Although confidence is one of the major contemporary concerns in the psychology of sporting performance, extant study has primarily been concerned with elite and/or individual sports, and a deductive framework has been dominant. Drawing upon the core techniques of Straussian Grounded Theory, the research reported in this paper inductively analyses detailed accounts of confidence-sourcing provided by N=14 seasoned participants in amateur soccer. Results reveal a number of (sometimes eclectic) features of the ways that these individuals interpret and organise their own confidence sources, not least those relating to highly variable temporal and socio-spatial frames within which a potential confidence source might be considered “relevant” or “useful.” These findings contrast significantly with others emanating from research in the elite domain and, it is contended, have direct practical implications for both physical educators and grassroots sport coaches.
AB - Although confidence is one of the major contemporary concerns in the psychology of sporting performance, extant study has primarily been concerned with elite and/or individual sports, and a deductive framework has been dominant. Drawing upon the core techniques of Straussian Grounded Theory, the research reported in this paper inductively analyses detailed accounts of confidence-sourcing provided by N=14 seasoned participants in amateur soccer. Results reveal a number of (sometimes eclectic) features of the ways that these individuals interpret and organise their own confidence sources, not least those relating to highly variable temporal and socio-spatial frames within which a potential confidence source might be considered “relevant” or “useful.” These findings contrast significantly with others emanating from research in the elite domain and, it is contended, have direct practical implications for both physical educators and grassroots sport coaches.
KW - Amateur sport
KW - association football
KW - confidence
KW - confidence-sourcing
KW - qualitative psychology
KW - soccer
U2 - 10.2174/1875399X01508010008
DO - 10.2174/1875399X01508010008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 8
EP - 17
JO - Open Sports Science Journal
JF - Open Sports Science Journal
SN - 1875-399X
IS - 1
ER -