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Managing Thoughts and Emotions During Peak Athletic Performance: A Grounded Theory Study
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Managing Thoughts and Emotions During Peak Athletic Performance: A Grounded Theory Study
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Stanley, Joseph F., Jr., author.
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9780438075252
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1 electronic resource (146 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Jacquelyn St. Germaine Committee members: Loraine R. Fernandez; Rodney G. Williamson.
Özet:
Limited studies have investigated the mental processes that collegiate athletes use to facilitate their ability to achieve a peak athletic performance. An understanding of how athletes manage this process, maximize effort, and sustain effectiveness becomes important. This study employed a grounded theory methodology that used thorough interviews to garner data that answered the research question. Nine collegiate athletes, 5 females and 4 males, that ranged in age from 19 to 22, were from 6 National Collegiate Athletic Association universities and represented 5 varsity sports, volunteered to participate. Data analysis uncovered main categories and an understanding of the relationships between these and the process of managing thoughts and emotions. Identifying these categories then led to the discovery of an explanatory theoretical category that linked all the categories coherently into a story-line. The findings from analyzed interviews revealed aspects significant to peak performance achievement and an understanding of the mental processes involved. The developed main categories of mindfulness, cognitive emotion regulating, and cognitive restructuring were processes that culminated into an identifying overall central category. The central category was a new theoretical understanding of how athletes strive by way of the mental processes that support such an effort. Additionally, the findings added to previous research studies on flow theory, the IZOF model, and extended on other newer methods. Future studies that recruit professional, Olympic, and World-class athletes is a way to extend the investigation of the processes further.
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School code: 1351
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