An Examination of Athletic Performance and Self-Esteem Among Intercollegiate Athletes
Running Head: EXAMINATION OF ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
An Examination of Athletic Performance and
Self-Esteem among Intercollegiate Athletes
Shaquoia Ayers
University of Hartford
November 2005 Abstract
Only until recently coaches and sports psychologists want to study factors that are included in increasing an athlete 's performance during competition. This article investigated the relationship between self-esteem and how it would predict and possibly increase the performance of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletes. Examining an athletes ' performance based on qualities that they may posses has been studied for many years but only recent research of self-esteem and how it affects and individuals ' athletic performance has only been tested for some years. Higher self-esteem is said to be associated with better athletic performance while low self-esteem is said to be associated with performing more poorly. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-esteem and the performance of Division I NCAA athletes after competition. Self-esteem was assessed using the Rosenberg 's (1965) Self-Esteem scale (RSES) and the athletic performance was rated by other athletes, their teammates and coaches based on their performance during practice that week prior to competition.
An Examination of Athletic Performance and Self-Esteem Among Intercollegiate Athletes
Self-evaluation processes have been implicated as central to the formation of competence beliefs, known to affect athletic performance (Weiss & Ebbeck, 1996) (Gotwals, 2002). When competing against peers, in the athletic domain, the level of confidence that the individuals may have of themselves can determine how the performance of that athlete will be. The strength of the expectations that individuals have of their abilities to perform successfully determines if that athlete will be motivated and how long they will do that particular behavior. The
An Examination of Athletic Performance and
Self-Esteem among Intercollegiate Athletes
Shaquoia Ayers
University of Hartford
November 2005 Abstract
Only until recently coaches and sports psychologists want to study factors that are included in increasing an athlete 's performance during competition. This article investigated the relationship between self-esteem and how it would predict and possibly increase the performance of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletes. Examining an athletes ' performance based on qualities that they may posses has been studied for many years but only recent research of self-esteem and how it affects and individuals ' athletic performance has only been tested for some years. Higher self-esteem is said to be associated with better athletic performance while low self-esteem is said to be associated with performing more poorly. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self-esteem and the performance of Division I NCAA athletes after competition. Self-esteem was assessed using the Rosenberg 's (1965) Self-Esteem scale (RSES) and the athletic performance was rated by other athletes, their teammates and coaches based on their performance during practice that week prior to competition.
An Examination of Athletic Performance and Self-Esteem Among Intercollegiate Athletes
Self-evaluation processes have been implicated as central to the formation of competence beliefs, known to affect athletic performance (Weiss & Ebbeck, 1996) (Gotwals, 2002). When competing against peers, in the athletic domain, the level of confidence that the individuals may have of themselves can determine how the performance of that athlete will be. The strength of the expectations that individuals have of their abilities to perform successfully determines if that athlete will be motivated and how long they will do that particular behavior. The
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