Self-confidence is one of the most important conditions needed for athletes to succeed.The way in which the self-confidence of athletes may be improved is an eternal topic in training and competition.This study aimed ...Self-confidence is one of the most important conditions needed for athletes to succeed.The way in which the self-confidence of athletes may be improved is an eternal topic in training and competition.This study aimed to examine whether uncon-scious goal priming can improve athletes'explicit and implicit self-confidence through three experiments.Experiment 1 was aimed at exploring the effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence.For the purpose of this experiment,120 athletes were randomly divided into a priming group and a control group.Experiment 2 was aimed at examining the training effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence and for the purpose of this experiment 16 rhythmic gymnastics athletes were selected as subjects.Experiment 3 was aimed at checking the replication of the training effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence employing 16 judo athletes as subjects.The results indicated that unconscious goal priming improved athletes'explicit self-confidence but not implicit self-confidence,while unconscious goal priming intervention improved both athletes'explicit and implicit self-confidence.These results provide an economical and convenient alternative for improving athletes'self-confidence.展开更多
基金Funding was provided by The National Key Research and Development Program of ChinaResearch and Demonstration of Key Technologies for the International Training Platform for Winter Developing and Undeveloped Sports(Grant No.2018YFF0300900).
文摘Self-confidence is one of the most important conditions needed for athletes to succeed.The way in which the self-confidence of athletes may be improved is an eternal topic in training and competition.This study aimed to examine whether uncon-scious goal priming can improve athletes'explicit and implicit self-confidence through three experiments.Experiment 1 was aimed at exploring the effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence.For the purpose of this experiment,120 athletes were randomly divided into a priming group and a control group.Experiment 2 was aimed at examining the training effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence and for the purpose of this experiment 16 rhythmic gymnastics athletes were selected as subjects.Experiment 3 was aimed at checking the replication of the training effect of unconscious goal priming on athletes'self-confidence employing 16 judo athletes as subjects.The results indicated that unconscious goal priming improved athletes'explicit self-confidence but not implicit self-confidence,while unconscious goal priming intervention improved both athletes'explicit and implicit self-confidence.These results provide an economical and convenient alternative for improving athletes'self-confidence.
