The Effects of a Mental Training Program on Juniors Pre-Competitive Anxiety, Self-Confidence, and Tennis Performance

By George Mamassis, George Doganis. 2004

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Effect of a psychological skills training program on swimming performance and positive psychological development (2006, result): “For example, the results of the present study add support to the findings of research using a similarly aged sample (cf Mamassis & Doganis, 2004) that found that young athletes between 12 to 14 years of age had a rather vague impression of what they can accomplish, and having attainable goals…”
Does Imagery Work? Effects on Performance and Mental Skills (2008, methodology): “Similarly, in a single-case study design, Mamassis and Doganis (2004) used cue-words, imagery, relaxation, and thought-stopping to help a young tennis player improve in a variety of performance areas.”
Recent developments in competitive anxiety direction and competition stress research (2008, unknown): “Mamassis and Doganis ( 2004 ) also used a comparable mental skills package to that employed by Hanton and Jones and showed increases in facilitative interpretations and performance in junior tennis players as a result.”
Assessing the Effectiveness of Self-Talk Interventions on Endurance Performance (2007, background): “…this study lend support to previous self-talk studies that have examined the effectiveness of positive self-talk on performance (Defrancesco & Burke, 1997; Kirschenbaum et al., 1998; Mamassis & Doganis, 2004; McPherson, 2000; Ming & Martin, 1996; Papaioannou et al., 2004; Thomas & Fogarty, 1997).”