How Emotions Influence Performance in Competitive Sports

By R. Lazarus. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. P. McCarthy
3. S. Mellalieu
4. S. Hanton
5. L. Bortoli
6. C. Robazza
7. Rich Neil
8. A. Nicholls

In Social Psychology

1. D. Fletcher
2. P. McCarthy
3. C. Robazza
4. L. Bortoli
5. S. Hanton
6. S. Mellalieu
7. Sylvain Laborde
8. A. Nicholls

Citations in the corpus

• Emotional Intelligence: A Theoretical Overview and Implications for Research and Professional Practice in Sport Psychology (2007, background): “It has been suggested (Lazarus, 1991; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) that emotion provides information about how individuals cope with the challenges and demands faced in the occupational environment as well as the dynamic interactions that take place inside the corporate world.”
• How Does Perceived Support Lead to Better Performance? An Examination of Potential Mechanisms (2009, background): “Stress appraisals can be further categorized as harm, benefit, threat, or challenge (Lazarus, 2000).”
• Trait emotional intelligence in sports: A protective role against stress through heart rate variability? (2011, background): “The pressure and the subsequent stress and emotions experienced by athletes are more intense when highly valued goals are at stake (Lazarus, 2000).”
• Emotions in Team Contact Sports: A Systematic Review (2012, positive): “Lazarus (2000) corroborated these suggestions when he proposed that anxiety and anger influence sports performance by mobilizing energy.”
• Stress and Coping: A Study of World Class Coaches (2010, background): “In studies with athlete populations, an inability to effectively cope with stressors has been linked to reduced quality of performance (Lazarus, 2000) and withdrawal from sport (Smith, 1986), and there is no reason to suggest that the same outcomes would not extend to coaching populations.”
• Visual Attention and Brain Processes That Underlie Expert Performance: Implications for Sport and Military Psychology (2008, background): “Lazarus (2000) scathingly but accurately characterized the study of emotion and performance as being negligent of the rapidly advancing field of affective science.”
• Predicting In-Game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players (2019, result): “These re-sults are consistent with the hypothesized relationship of mental state and performance, and support claims in the literature that such an “emotional state” has predictive power on player performance (Lazarus 2000; Hanin 2007).”
• The Mental Health of Elite Athletes: A Narrative Systematic Review (2016, background): “The ways by which athletes appraise and cope with these stressors can be a powerful determinant of the impact the stressors have on both their mental health and their sporting success [18].”
• Critical Comments About Body Shape and Weight: Disordered Eating of Female Athletes and Sport Participants (2008, background): “Eight basic emotions (happiness, pride, relief, anger, anxiety, fright, sadness, and shame) from the 15 proposed by Lazarus (2000) were found to be valid for high-level karate players (Ruiz & Hanin, 2004).”
• Metaphoric Description and Individualized Emotion Profiling of Performance States in Top Karate Athletes (2004, methodology): “Given that the situational appraisals of anticipated and occurred outcomes (Lazarus, 2000) trigger quantitatively and qualitatively different emotional experiences, a change in the content of emotional experiences along the temporal dimension was expected.”
• Predicting In-game Actions From the Language of NBA Players (2019, result): “These results are consistent with the hypothesized relationship of mental state and performance, and support claims in the literature that such an "emotional state" has predictive power on player performance (Lazarus 2000; Hanin 2007).”
• Stressors and Coping Strategies among Early and Middle Adolescent Premier League Academy Soccer Players: Differences According to Age (2009, background): “Players must learn to cope with stressors if they are to pursue a career in professional sport (Holt & Dunn, 2004), as failure to cope can lead to decreased performance (Lazarus, 2000).”
• Performance-induced emotions experienced during high-stakes table tennis matches. (2007, background): “Lazarus (2000) insisted on the need for empirical studies in the field of sports to characterize thesituations in which emotions occur.”