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- Title
Effects of Self-Handicapping Strategies on Anxiety Before Athletic Performance.
- Authors
Coudevylle, Guillaume R.; Martin Ginis, Kathleen A.; Famose, Jean-Pierre; Gernigon, Christophe
- Abstract
The purpose of the present experiment was to examine whether the use of self-handicapping strategies influences participants' anxiety levels before athletic performance. Seventy-one competitive basketball players participated in the study. A repeated measures design was used, such that state cognitive and somatic anxiety intensity and direction were measured before and after participants were given the opportunity to self-handicap. Overall, participants reported their cognitive anxiety to be more facilitating after they had the opportunity to self-handicap. Thus, participants who were given the opportunity to self-handicap (i.e., use claimed and behavioral self-handicaps), reported greater increases in perceptions of cognitive anxiety as facilitating their performance. This study shows the importance of looking at anxiety direction, and not just anxiety intensity, when examining self-handicapping's effects on anxiety. Implications for sport psychologists are proposed.
- Subjects
ANXIETY; BASKETBALL players; COGNITION; ATHLETIC ability; PERFORMANCE management; SPORTS psychology; ATHLETIC ability testing
- Publication
Sport Psychologist, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 3, p304
- ISSN
0888-4781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/tsp.22.3.304