The Role of Psychological Characteristics in Facilitating the Pathway to Elite Performance Part 2: Examining Environmental and Stage-Related Differences in Skills and Behaviors

By Á. Macnamara, Angela Button, D. Collins. 2010

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MacNamara, Button, & Collins (under review) proposed that if individuals are to fulfill their potential they must possess and systematically develop a specific set of skills (termed Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence or PCDEs) that allow them to interact effectively with the developmental opportunities they are afforded. Given the complexity of the developmental pathway, it may well be that different skills are needed at different stages of development and across different performance domains. Twenty-four elite participants from team sports, individual sports, and music were purposefully sampled from different domains and interviewed on their experiences of their own pathways to excellence. Results suggested that although PCDEs were important throughout development, the manner by which they were deployed depended on stage, domain, and the characteristics of the individual performer. These findings support proposals to systematically incorporate PCDEs into TID practices because these ma...

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Peter J. Clough
2. Lee Crust
3. P. Wylleman
4. D. Collins
5. A. Pankhurst
6. Aurélie Ledon
7. N. Debois
8. Á. Macnamara

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. Peter J. Clough
2. Lee Crust
3. P. Wylleman
4. Aurélie Ledon
5. N. Debois
6. D. Collins
7. Á. Macnamara
8. Angela Button

In Social Psychology

1. Peter J. Clough
2. Lee Crust
3. P. Wylleman
4. D. Collins
5. A. Pankhurst
6. Aurélie Ledon
7. N. Debois
8. Á. Macnamara

Citations in the corpus

• A lifespan perspective on the dual career of elite male athletes (2015, background): “…need to take into account the role of facilitative/debilitative factors in the development of expert performance (e.g., Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2002; MacNamara et al., 2010a, 2010b), participants were asked to indicate on their grids those factors that they perceived to have acted in a facilitative…”
• Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “Psychological talent development generally, and more specifically the development of mental toughness, appears to be a complex, long-term process (Connaughton, Wadey et al., 2008; MacNamara et al., 2010a).”
• Talent Identification and Development: The Need for Coherence Between Research, System, and Process (2013, background): “Research indicates that a number of skills can beneficially be developed at the appropriate age in immature young athletes (MacNamara et al., 2010b).”
• The Role of Psychological Characteristics in Facilitating the Pathway to Elite Performance Part 1: Identifying Mental Skills and Behaviors (2010, background): “Checking for such time and environment-based differences was the focus for the second part of this investigation (MacNamara et al., 2010).”