Perceived Importance of Selected Psychological Strategies Among Elite Malaysian Athletes

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https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2017-0001
Keywords:
cultural influences; elite athletes; psychological skills
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Volume 12: Issue 2
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Elite Malaysian athletes (N = 179) from integrated and segregated sports rated the perceived importance of eight psychological strategies for improving performance using two different response format methods, a Likert rating scale and forced-choice. A forced-choice procedure produced better discrimination among the skills than a Likert rating scale procedure. We also found that the ratings of importance differed as a function of sport type and gender. Specifically, athletes in integrated sports placed more importance on setting team goals and clarifying roles/responsibilities compared to athletes in segregated sports. At the same time, participants in segregated sports viewed setting personal goals, psych-up strategies, and imagery as more important for performance than those in integrated sports. Significant interaction effects indicated that, within segregated sports, females rated positive self-talk higher than males, but communication skills were rated higher by males than by females.

Ponnusamy is with the Sports Performance Division, National Sports Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Guerrero is with the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Martin is with the Division of Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

Address author correspondence to Jeffrey Martin at aa3975@wayne.edu.
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