Confidence in College Athletes
Location
CSU 201
Start Date
22-4-2008 10:30 AM
End Date
22-4-2008 12:15 PM
Student's Major
Communication Studies
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Warren Sandmann
Mentor's Department
Communication Studies
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
I researched the processes used by intercollegiate athletes to maintain confidence throughout their sports career, including how they prepared for games/competitions, how they dealt with pressures, and how other factors affected their performance and mental thought process during games. For this research, I created and administered an online survey. I found that many things gave the athletes confidence in themselves to play their sport such as· family, teammates, self, coach, faith, preparation, supporters in general, friends, doing well, and previous feelings of accomplishment/success. However, some things also lowered the respondents' confidence levels such as failing, negativity, being yelled at, negative coaches, "dad's negative perspective", penalizing mistakes, poor performances, consecutive bad games, bad practices, and body pains. Results imply that athletes, for the most part, seem confident and optimistic. Almost every response showed that the person answering the question has had struggles in the past when engaging in sports, but was able to overcome them with the support of teammates, coaches, family, and friends.
Confidence in College Athletes
CSU 201
I researched the processes used by intercollegiate athletes to maintain confidence throughout their sports career, including how they prepared for games/competitions, how they dealt with pressures, and how other factors affected their performance and mental thought process during games. For this research, I created and administered an online survey. I found that many things gave the athletes confidence in themselves to play their sport such as· family, teammates, self, coach, faith, preparation, supporters in general, friends, doing well, and previous feelings of accomplishment/success. However, some things also lowered the respondents' confidence levels such as failing, negativity, being yelled at, negative coaches, "dad's negative perspective", penalizing mistakes, poor performances, consecutive bad games, bad practices, and body pains. Results imply that athletes, for the most part, seem confident and optimistic. Almost every response showed that the person answering the question has had struggles in the past when engaging in sports, but was able to overcome them with the support of teammates, coaches, family, and friends.
Recommended Citation
Halpin, Kimberly. "Confidence in College Athletes." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 22, 2008.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2008/oral-session-12/1
