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Welsh, JC, Dewhurst, SA and Perry, JL (2023) The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 68. ISSN 1469-0292
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Abstract
Two experiments investigated whether mental toughness (MT) is associated with the ability to respond to and/or overcome unwanted information during real-time sport performance. Participants were male snooker players ranging from club to professional level, and MT was measured using the MTQ48 (Clough et al., 2002). In experiment 1, players performed five break-off shots and received deceptive feedback (either positive or negative) from the researcher about their performance relative to other players. Then they performed another five break-offs. Results showed a significant decline in performance following feedback, but no interaction with the nature of feedback or MT variables. In experiment 2, feedback was delivered by a coach and yielded a significant effect on performance. Specifically, negative feedback improved performance while positive feedback impaired performance. The Life Control subscale of the MTQ48 was a significant covariate. The results suggest that negative feedback, delivered constructively by a respected figure, may act as a catalyst for performance enhancement in snooker and that this is moderated by MT.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 11 Medical and Health Sciences; 13 Education; 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; Sport Sciences |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2023 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2023 11:45 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102466 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19932 |
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