The dynamics of psychological momentum in sport: The role of ongoing history of performance patterns

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 377-400

  Gernigon, Christophe ^a   Briki, Walid ^a   Eykens, Katie ^b  

^a University of Montpellier   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Anxiety; Dynamical systems; Negative hysteresis; Self confidence

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; TENNIS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SELF EFFICACY; TENNIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955938655     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: 15432904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.32.3.377     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Abelson, R.P. (1981). The psychological status of the script concept. The American Psychologist, 36, 715-729.
2. Adler, P. (1981). Momentum: A theory of social action. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
3. Atance, CM., & O'Neill, D.K. (2001). Episodic future thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 533-539.
4. Atance, CM., & O'Neill, D.K. (2005). The emergence of episodic future thinking in humans. Learning and Motivation, 36, 126-144.
5. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman.
6. Baumeister, R.F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C, &Vohs, K.D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5, 323-370.
7. Beek, P.J., Verschoor, E, & Kelso, J.A.S. (1997). Requirements for the emergence of a dynamical social psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 100-104.
8. Brislin, R.W., Lonner, W.J., & Thorndike, R.M. (1973). Cross-cultural research methods. New York: Wiley.
9. Burton, D., & Naylor, S. (1997). Is anxiety really facilitative? Reaction to the myth that cognitive anxiety always impairs sport performance. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 9, 295-302.
10. Carver, CS. (2006). Approach, avoidance, and the self-regulation of affect and action. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 105-110.
11. Carver, C.S., & Scheier, M.E (1990). Origins and functions of positive and negative affect: A control-process view. Psychological Review, 97, 19-35.
12. Carver, C.S., & Scheier, M.E (1998). On the self-regulation of behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press.
13. Carver, C.S., & Scheier, M.E (2002). Control processes and self-organization as complementary principles underlying behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 304-315.
14. Choi, S-H., White, E., Wood, D.M., Dodson, T., Vasavada, K.V., & Vemuri, G. (1999). Delayed bifurcations and negative hysteresis in semiconductor lasers: The role of initial conditions. Optics Communications, 160, 261-267.
15. Conroy, D.E., & Elliot, AJ. (2004). Fear of failure and achievement goals in sport: Addressing the issue of the chicken and the egg. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 17, 271-285.
16. Conroy, D.E., Elliot, A.J., & Hofer, S.M. (2003). A 2×2 achievement goals questionnaire for sport: Evidence for factorial invariance, temporal stability, and external validity. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 25, A56-A16.
17. Cox, R.H., Martens, M.P., & Russel, W.D. (2003). Measuring anxiety in athletics: The revised competitive state anxiety inventory-2. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 25, 519-533.
18. Elliot, AJ. (2005). A conceptual history of the achievement goal construct. In AJ. Elliot & C.S. Dweck (Eds.), Handbook of competence and motivation (pp. 52-72). NY: Guilford Press.
19. Elliot, A.J., & Church, M.A. (1997). A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 218-232.
20. Elliot, A.J., & McGregor, H.A. (2001). A 2 × 2 achievement goal framework. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 501-519.
21. Elliot, A.J., & Murayama, K. (2008). On the measurement of achievement goals: Critique, illustration, and application. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 613-628.
22. Ferron, E, Le Bars, H., & Gernigon, C. (2005). Development and validation of a 2 × 2 Goal Involvement States Questionnaire for Sport. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 27, S64-S65.
23. Gernigon, C, d'Arripe-Longueville, E, Delignières, D., & Ninot, G. (2004). A dynamical systems perspective on goal involvement states in sport. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 26, 572-596.
24. Gernigon, C, & Delloye, J-B. (2003). Self-efficacy, causal attribution, and track athletic performance following unexpected success or failure among elite sprinters. The Sport Psychologist, 17, 55-76.
25. Gernigon, C, Yvelin, N., Delignières, D., Ninot, G., & d'Arripe-Longueville, F. (2002). A dynamic approach to the variations in the perception of control, anxiety, and self-confidence, and in their patterns of synchronization during time-out in sport. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 24, S62.
26. Haken, H., Kelso, J.A.S., & Bunz, H. (1985). A theoretical model of phase transitions in human hand movements. Biological Cybernetics, 51, 347-356.
27. Hsee, C.K., & Abelson, R.P. (1991). Velocity relation: Satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 341-347.
28. Hsee, C.K., Salovey, P., & Abelson, R.P. (1994). The quasi-acceleration relation: Satisfaction as a function of the change in velocity of outcome over time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 30, 96-111.
29. Janelle, CM., Singer, R.N., & Williams, A.M. (1999). External distraction and attentional narrowing: Visual search evidence. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 21, 70-91.
30. Jones, G. (1991). Recent developments and current issues in competitive state anxiety research. The Psychologist, 4, 152-155.
31. Jones, G., & Swain, A.B.J. (1992). Intensity and direction dimensions of competitive state anxiety and relationships with competitiveness. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74, 467-472.
32. Jones, M.I., & Harwood, C. (2008). Psychological momentum within competitive soccer: Players' perspectives. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 20, 57-72.
33. Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica, 47, 263-291.
34. Kerick, S.E., Iso-Ahola, S.E., & Hatfield, B.D. (2000). Psychological momentum in target shooting: Cortical, cognitive-affective, and behavioral responses. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 22, 1-20.
35. Lawrence, J.W., Carver, C.S., & Scheier, M.F. (2002). Velocity toward goal attainment in immediate experience as a determinant of affect. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 788-802.
36. Lazarus, R.S., & Folkman, S. (1984). Stress, appraisal, and coping. New York: Springer.
37. Lundqvist, C, Kentta, G., & Raglin, J.S. (in press).Directional anxiety responses in elite and sub-elite young athletes: Intensity of anxiety symptoms matters. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01102.x.
38. Markman, K.D., & Guenther, C.L. (2007). Psychological momentum: Intuitive physics and naive beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 800-812.
39. Martens, R., Vealey, R.S., & Burton, D. (1990). Competitive anxiety in sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
40. Murray, N.P., & Janelle, CM. (2003). Anxiety and performance: A visual search examination of the processing efficiency theory. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 25, 171-187.
41. Nowak, A., & Vallacher, R.R. (1998). Dynamical social psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
42. Perreault, S., Vallerand, R.J., Montgomery, D., & Provencher, P. (1998). Coming from behind: On the effect of psychological momentum on sport performance. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 20, 421-436.
43. Shaw, J.M., Dzewaltowski, D. A., & McElroy, M. (1992). Self-efficacy and causal attributions as mediators of psychological momentum. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 14, 134-147.
44. Silva, J.M., Cornelius, A.E., & Finch, L.M. (1992). Psychological momentum and skill performance: A laboratory study. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 14, 119-133.
45. Stanimirovic, R., & Hanrahan, SJ. (2004). Efficacy, affect and teams: Is momentum a misnomer? International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2, 43-62.
46. Taylor, J., & Demick, A. (1994). A multidimensional model of momentum in sports. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 6, 51-70.
47. Tuller, B., Case, P., Ding, M., & Kelso, J.A.S. (1994). The nonlinear dynamics of speech categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 20, 3-16.
48. Vallacher, R.R., Nowak, A., Froehlich, M., & Rockloff, M. (2002). The dynamics of self-evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 370-379.
49. Vallerand, R.J., Colavecchio, P.G., & Pelletier, L.G. (1988). Psychological momentum and performance inferences: A preliminary test of the antecedents-consequences psychological momentum model. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 10, 92-108.
50. Valvidares, S.M., Álvarez-Prado, L.M., Martin, J.I., & Alameda, J.M. (2001). Inverted hysteresis loops in magnetically coupled bilayers with uniaxial competing anisotro-pies: Theory and experiments. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 64, 1-12.
51. Williams, A.M., Vickers, J., &Rodrigues, S. (2002). The effects of anxiety on visual search, movement kinematics, and performance in table tennis: A test of Eysenck and Calvo's processing efficiency theory. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 24, 438-455.
52. Woodman, T., & Hardy, L. (2003). The relative impact of cognitive anxiety and self-confidence upon sport performance: A meta-analysis. Journal of Sports Sciences, 21, 443-457.