Psychological Characteristics and Their Development in Olympic Champions

By D. Gould, K. Dieffenbach, Aaron Moffett. 2002

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

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A grounded theory of psychological resilience in Olympic champions (2012, background): “A sample of Olympic gold medalists was selected since they have been shown to possess certain psychological characteristics that enable them to withstand stressors and that set them apart from less successful athletes (Gould et al., 2002; Gould &Maynard, 2009; Hardy et al., 1996; Krane & Williams, 2”
Talent Identification and Development: The Need for Coherence Between Research, System, and Process (2013, background): “Similarly, Gould and Dieffenbach (2002) cited confidence, ability to handle pressure and courage as examples of capacities that contribute to performance, noting the need to develop these skills in line with age.”
Talent Development: A Guide for Practice and Research Within Sport (2005, background): “, 2002; Orlick & Partington, 1988) and the coaching environment (Bloom, 1985; Gould et al., 2002).”
Mental Qualities and Employed Mental Techniques of Young Elite Team Sport Athletes (2010, methodology): “In support of previous research with adult sport participants (Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2002; Gould et al., 2002; Krane & Williams, 2006), a range of common mental qualities were perceived as crucial to youth athletes’ sporting development.”
Examining the Development Environments of Elite English Football Academies: The Players' Perspective (2014, background): “These findings suggest that academy coaches might be overlooking the important role parents play in the development process [16]; even through the investment years where the coach is considered to exert a greater influence [14].”
Coaches' views of mental toughness and how it is built (2011, methodology): “This finding is in accordance with the development of psychological talent research (Gould et al., 2002) highlighting that the psychological characteristics of successful athletes (i.e., Olympic medalists) are developed over time and are influenced by a variety of environmental factors and…”
Toward a Grounded Theory of the Psychosocial Competencies and Environmental Conditions Associated with Soccer Success (2004, background): “…athletes posses a range of psychological characteristics including the ability to cope with anxiety and obstacles, self-confidence, competitiveness, intrinsic motivation, the ability to block out distractions, and the ability to set and achieve goals (Gould et al., 2002; Vernacchia et al., 2000).”
Mental toughness and athletes' use of psychological strategies (2010, methodology): “As such, the use of the TOPS inventory with adolescent athletes remains questionable, although the inventory retains good support as the instrument of choice in assessing athletes’ psychological skills (Fletcher & Hanton, 2001; Gould et al., 2002; Jackson et al., 2000; Williams et al., 2008).”
Perfectionism and competitive anxiety in athletes: Differentiating striving for perfection and negative reactions to imperfection (2007, result): “As adaptive perfectionism has been identified as a psychological characteristic of Olympic champions (Gould et al., 2002), future studies should investigate whether the present findings also hold for top athletes.”
Competitive experience and performance status: an investigation into multidimensional anxiety and coping (2008, background): “In relation to the quality of the athlete's experience, Hanton and Jones ( 1999 ) and Gould and colleagues (Gould, Dieffenbach, & Moffett, 2002 ) have observed critical experiences to involve key events including major competitions, the stage of the athlete's career in which such events are experie”
Well-being in competitive sports—The feel-good factor? A review of conceptual considerations of well-being (2011, background): “Studies have also revealed that elite athletes with long, successful sports careers are characterized by a range of attributes related to well-being including a hopeful and positive view of the future, high perceived ability, high self-esteem, adequate life balance, well developed skills to cope wit”
Three Worlds: new directions in participant development in sport and physical activity (2012, background): “They offer the example of a lack of mental focus (Gould et al, 2002 ) as a factor that might hinder the development of a young, but otherwise talented athlete.”