Supporting audiences and performance under pressure: the home-ice disadvantage in hockey championships
|
 |
|
Post a Comment
|
|
|
|
|
|
ABSTRACT:
R.F. Baumeister and A. Steinhilber proposed that the presence of a supportive audience engenders a state of self-attention when an imminent opportunity exists for claiming a desired identity (e.g., as champion in a sporting event). Archival data on performance in baseball, basketball and golf championships suggests that this state of self-attention interferes with the execution of skillful responses. In these sports, the performance of the home players deteriorated in relation to that of the visiting players as the championships progressed. Recent findings have called into question both the generality of this effect and the presumed mediating processes. The goal of the current study was to test a competing explanation for these findings by examining performance in a quite different sport: ice hockey. The results supported Baumeister and Steinhilber's explanation of the home-disadvantage effect, and they extend the generality of this phenomenon.
|
|
|
|
STATISTICS
|
|
Click on # to view
|
|
Citations
|
|
0
|
|
References
|
|
0
|
|
Comments
|
|
0
|
|
Quality
|
|
0/0.00
|
|
Interest
|
|
0/0.00
|
|
View(er)s
|
|
6/346
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev |
Next |
|