Anger and optimal performance in karate : an application of the IZOF model
Montse Ruiz Cerezo tutki väitöskirjatyössään emotionaalisten kokemusten ja liikuntasuorituksen välistä suhdetta. Hän tarkasteli espanjalaisten karatekojen suorituksiin liittyvää vihaa ja muita tunnetiloja ja havaitsi, että urheilijat kokivat vihan parantavan suoritusta, koska se tuotti ylimääräistä energiaa. Huonosti menneissä kilpailuissa viha kuitenkin heijasti energian puutetta tai urheilijan kykenemättömyyttä ottaa käyttöön tai hyödyntää omia resurssejaan. In sports, much research attention has been placed on the study of pre-competitive anxiety; however, a need to examine a wider range of emotions has been emphasized. Anger, as a stress-related emotion, is commonly experienced in competitive sports. While anger is considered to have a negative effect on health and well being, its impact on athletic performance remains unclear.Moreover, athletes’ emotional experiences have typically been studied from a nomothetic approach. While such an approach is useful in the study of inter-individual differences, it is often ineffective when applied to individuals, given that the athletes’ perspective is underestimated. Thus, this study used the IZOF model to examine anger and other emotional experiences prior to, during, and after athletes’ recalled best and worst performances focusing on the intensity, content, and athletes’ perceptions of the functional impact of anger on their performance as well as their perceptions about their optimal states.Results revealed great variability in optimal and dysfunctional levels of anger intensity, which were low, moderate and high for different athletes. Metaphoric descriptions of athletes’ states were also highly individual and holistic reflecting various components of a psychobiosocial state. Symbolic images describing athletes’ best competitions reflected high readiness for action, whereas low readiness for action characterized metaphors in worst competitions. The content of anger and other performance-related states was highly individual varying across the three performance situations and contexts. The athletes perceived their anger as facilitating for performance in terms of the generation of additional energy. However, in worst competitions, anger reflected a lack of energy or an athletes’ inability to recruit or effectively utilize their own resources. Athletes’ perceptions of their optimal states included positive states such as confidence, as well as negative states, such as anger or anxiety.The results, which support the use of an idiographic approach, call for individualized intervention and self-regulation programs, based on each athlete’s specific resources and needs rather than being limited to the simple reduction of negative states such as anger
...
![showless](/themes/JYX2//images/showless.png)
![showmore](/themes/JYX2//images/showmore.png)
Publisher
University of JyväskyläISBN
951-39-1995-1ISSN Search the Publication Forum
0075-4625Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
- Väitöskirjat [3499]
License
Related items
Showing items with similar title or keywords.
-
Analysis and performance of FBMC techniques with application to relay networks
Sriyananda, M. G. S. (University of Jyväskylä, 2014) -
Game understanding and game performance in badminton : development and validation of assessment instruments and their application to games teaching and coaching
Blomqvist, Minna (University of Jyväskylä, 2001)Hyväksi pelaajaksi tuleminen vaatii hyvien fyysisten ja taidollisten ominaisuuksien lisäksi myös hyviä kognitiivisia taitoja. Suomessa pelien tutkiminen, valmentaminen ja opettaminen on kuitenkin keskittynyt pääasiassa ... -
H.264 QoS and Application Performance with Different Streaming Protocols
Laine, Sanna; Hakala, Ismo (EAI, European Alliance for Innovation, 2015)Streaming techniques, including the selected streaming protocol, have an effect on the streaming quality. In this study, the performance of three different streaming protocols in a disturbed communication channel is ... -
Preference-based Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Methods, Performance Indicators, and Applications
Aghaei Pour, Pouya (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2022)Multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) involve optimizing multiple conflicting objective functions simultaneously. As a result of this conflict, we have several mathematically incomparable solutions called Pareto ... -
Self-regulation strategies to enhance performance in high-level ice hockey players : an application of the MuSt theory
Sacklin, Atte (2023)The importance of being aware of and reaching functional emotional states for optimal performance utilizing self-regulation can be seen as playing a key role in high-level sports. The purpose of the current study was to ...