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It's a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology and Social Work.
G Annunzio Univ Chieti Pescara, BIND Behav Imaging & Neural Dynam Ctr, Dept Med & Aging Sci, Chieti, Pescara, Italy..
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology and Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1508-9621
Umeå Univ, Dept Psychol, Umeå, Sweden..
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2024 (English)In: The Sport psychologist, ISSN 0888-4781, E-ISSN 1543-2793Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Strategic self-talk is a powerful mental skill that athletes can use to self-regulate the effects of pressure and enhance task performance. Multistates (MuSt) theory considers the combination of emotion- and action-centered self-regulation to be the most effective strategy to optimize athletes' performance and subjective experience. The aim of this study was to test the tenets of MuSt theory ona pressurized performance task, involving male junior football players (N= 20, Mage =18.6) competing at the elite level in Finland. The task tested the players' passing abilities over six trials while they applied different self-talk strategies in attempts to improve passing performance. The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of strategic self-talk as a form of self-regulation. Specifically, the combination of emotion- and action-centered cue words proved to be the optimal strategy for coping with the demands of the task. The study findings have relevant practical implications for players, coaches, and practitioners.

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Human Kinetics , 2024.
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feeling states, action components, self-regulation, multistates theory
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Sport and Fitness Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-53535DOI: 10.1123/tsp.2024-0065ISI: 001376020300001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-53535DiVA, id: diva2:1924648
Available from: 2025-01-07 Created: 2025-01-07 Last updated: 2025-01-07Bibliographically approved

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