A descriptive study of athlete self-talk.

By J. Hardy, K. Gammage, Craig R. Hall. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Quantifying athlete self-talk (2005, background): “Hardy et al. (2001a) found that self-talk serves two main functions for the athlete, cognitive (instructional) and motivational.”
Investigating the Functions of Self-Talk: The Effects of Motivational Self-Talk on Self-Efficacy and Performance in Young Tennis Players (2008, background): “Hardy, Gammage, and Hall (2001) in a qualitative inquiry examined the reasons for which athletes talk to themselves.”
Using Psychological Skills Training to Develop Soccer Performance (2006, methodology): “Based on Taylor’s (1995) recommendations and the positive findings of previous research (e.g., Hardy et al., 2001), motivational self-talk can be utilized for issues relating to effort (maintaining and increasing drive) and arousal (activation and relaxation).”
Developing competitive endurance performance using mental skills training (2003, background): “Indeed, while recent evidence exists as to the use of various mental skills (e.g., Hardy et al., 2001; Munroe et al., 2000) across sporting activities, there is no evidence to date identifying the ways in which mental skills are specifically employed for individual athletic activities.”
Developing Effective Pre-performance Routines in Golf: Why Don't We Ask the Golfer? (2010, background): “Hardy, Gammage, and Hall (2001) also found that athletes used trigger words for staying focused.”
Self-Talk and Female Youth Soccer Performance (2004, background): “As the above literature suggests, an alternative approach to assessing positive and negative ST has been to examine the effects of task-specific ST instructions on the learning and performance of specific skills or tasks (Hardy et al., 2001). Initially, Rushall (1984) observed that athletes’ ST in p”
Self-talk and gross motor skill performance: An experimental approach? (2005, methodology): “The general natures of the operational definitions of self-talk (the Self-Talk Grid) and self-efficacy, may help explain the small amount of variance account and/or lack of significance evident.”
Self-Talk: It Works, but How? Development and Preliminary Validation of the Functions of Self-Talk Questionnaire (2008, methodology): “Hardy, Gammage, and Hall (2001), using qualitative methodology and following Paivio’s (1985) conceptualization of imagery, examined the reasons for which athletes use ST.”