Learned helplessness and basketball playoff performance
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ABSTRACT:
This study tested the applicability of learned helplessness theory to professional basketball players in playoff competition. Hypotheses based upon learned helpless theory were only partially supported. Players of all ability levels demonstrated a decrease in production efficiency during the playoffs. Basketball players who had established themselves as elite or high-ability players during the regular season continued to outperform other players during the playoffs, but only to the degree that their regular-season production efficiency would have suggested. They were no more or less immune to the effects of learned helplessness than their less talented peers. It is suggested that professional basketball players of all ability levels, by means of their athletic competence during youth, have been immunized from developing learned helplessness.
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