Sport psychological skills and netball performance
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2007
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare junior netball players,
from successful and less successful provincial teams, regarding their
sport psychological skill (SPS) levels. One hundred and forty four
female South African provincial netball players (19.08 :t: 1.68 years)
completed three sport psychological questionnaires (CSAI-2, ACSI-
28 and PSI). The results show that the successful players obtained
better results than their less successful counterparts in 13 of the 19
tested Sport psychological variables. Moderate practically significant
differences were found between the groups for peaking under pressure
(d = 0.44), cognitive state anxiety direction (d = 0.35) and state selfconfidence
direction (d = 0.47). A forward stepwise discriminant
analysis identified eight of the tested 19 variables as discriminators
between the two groups with self-confidence intensity, mental rehearsal
and peaking under pressure reported as significant discriminators. The
developed prediction functions further proved to be 69.44% effective
in classifying the players into their original groups. The important
role of physiological conditioning, morphological attributes, technical
and tactical abilities etc. should also be taken into account when
comparing more and less Successful netball players as it plays a major
part in the performance outcome of netball teams. The results of this
study clearly highlight the important contribution of sport psychological
skills to netball performance.
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CITATION: Van Der Heever, Z., Grobbelaar, H. W. & Potgieter, J. C. 2007. Sport psychological skills and netball performance. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 52:109-124.
Keywords
Junior netball players, Netball -- Performance -- South Africa, Netball players -- Psychological aspects -- South Africa
Citation
Van Der Heever, Z., Grobbelaar, H. W. & Potgieter, J. C. 2007. Sport psychological skills and netball performance. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 52:109-124.