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Challenge and Threat States: Cardiovascular, Affective and Cognitive Responses to a Sports-Related Speech Task

MEIJEN, Carla, JONES, Marc, MCCARTHY, Paul and SHEFFIELD, David (2013) Challenge and Threat States: Cardiovascular, Affective and Cognitive Responses to a Sports-Related Speech Task. Motivation and Emotion, n/a (n/a). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0146-7239 (In Press)

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This study examined the relationship among cardiovascular responses indicative of challenge and threat states, self-efficacy, perceived control and emotions before an upcoming competition. Using a repeated-measures design, 48 collegiate athletes talked about an upcoming competition(sport-specific speech task) and the topic of friendship(control speech task), whilst cardiovascular responses (heart rate, preejection period, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance) were collected and self-report measures of self-efficacy, perceived control, and emotions completed. Findings showed that participants with a physiological threat response reported higher levels of self-efficacy and excitement. Further, none of the other emotions or the cognitive appraisals of challenge and threat predicted cardiovascular patterns indicative of either a challenge or threat state. Thus, cardiovascular responses and self-report measures of self-efficacy, perceived control, and emotions did not correlate in the manner predicted by the theory of challenge and threat states in athletes. This finding may reflect methodological aspects, or that perhaps highly efficacious individuals believe they can perform well and so the task itself is more threatening because failure would indicate under-performance.

Item Type: Article
Faculty: Previous Faculty of Health Sciences > Psychology, Sport and Exercise
Depositing User: Marc JONES
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2013 10:54
Last Modified: 24 Feb 2023 13:39
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URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/1399

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