The Role of Psychological Characteristics in Facilitating the Pathway to Elite Performance Part 1: Identifying Mental Skills and Behaviors

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

408 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. Lee Crust
3. Peter J. Clough
4. S. Hanton
5. Joanne Butt
6. A. Pankhurst
7. C. Wagstaff
8. P. Wylleman

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. Lee Crust
2. D. Fletcher
3. Peter J. Clough
4. S. Hanton
5. P. Wylleman
6. A. Pankhurst
7. Aurélie Ledon
8. N. Debois

In Social Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. Lee Crust
3. Peter J. Clough
4. S. Hanton
5. A. Pankhurst
6. C. Wagstaff
7. P. Wylleman
8. Joanne Butt

Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Positive Organizational Psychology in Sport: An Ethnography of Organizational Functioning in a National Sport Organization (2012, background): “For example, recent research has explored the psychological characteristics that have contributed to the development of consistent world-class performers (MacNamara et al., 2010) and perceptions of the strategies used to maintain relationship quality in the coachathlete dyad (Rhind & Jowett, 2010).”
• Factors Underpinning Football Officiating Excellence: Perceptions of English Premier League Referees (2013, result): “In accordance with existing research (MacNamara et al., 2010), the percentage of each raw-data, lower-order, and higher-order theme cited by referees is shown in parentheses.”
• 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).”
• ‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Premier League Soccer Academy (2014, background): “Paradoxically, the factor that was generally agreed as being most important in terms of progression was given least attention (cf. MacNamara et al. 2010): We probably invest 70 or 80% in technical and I would guess 5% or something like that on the mental side of it.”