Athletes are increasingly seeking out support to help improve performance, and many are turning towards sport psychology... View More
“I always felt pressure before a big fight, because what was happening was real” - Muhammad... View More
Arousal, defined as the level of neural excitation (Malmo, 1959) may be increased with activation of the autonomic... View More
One major approach to explaining the arousal-performance relationship in sport is the Inverted U-Hypothesis. ... View More
There are a number of approaches to explaining the emotion-performance link in sport. These include Apter’s... View More
The role of emotions in sport can be explained through Apter’s reversal theory (1989) which was first applied... View More
Similar to other theories of anxiety and sport performance, such as Multidimensional Anxiety Theory (MAT), the Catastrophe... View More
Work on competitive state anxiety research has largely been driven by the work of Martens and colleagues who developed... View More
Many athletes and coaches are interested in sport psychology mental skills to improve performance. Sport psychology... View More