- Title
- Alleviating choking : The sounds of distraction
- Creator
- Mesagno, Christopher; Marchant, Daryl; Morris, Tony
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/65465
- Identifier
- vital:2110
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200902795091
- Identifier
- ISSN:1041-3200
- Abstract
- Choking is defined as a critical deterioration in the execution of habitual processes as a result of an elevation in anxiety levels under perceived pressure, leading to substandard performance. In the current study, music was used in a dual-task paradigm to facilitate performance under pressure. Three choking-susceptible experienced female basketball players were purposively sampled from 41 screened players. Participants completed 240 basketball free throws in a single-case A1-B1-A2-B2 design (A phases = low-pressure and B phases = high-pressure), with the music intervention occurring during the B2 phase. Following completion of the phases, an interview was conducted to examine perceptions of choking and cognitions associated with the effects of the music lyrics. Participants improved performance in the B2 phase, and explained that choking resulted from an increase in public self-awareness (S-A). The music intervention decreased S-A, and enabled participants to minimize explicit monitoring of execution and reduce general distractibility.
- Relation
- Journal of Applied Sport Psychology Vol. 21, no. 2 (2009), p. 131-147
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Self-consciousness; Skilled performance; Coping strategies; Motor-performance; Pressure; Anxiety; Sport
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