Trait Anxieties

Losing was not an option, the speaker says that the coach "despised losing." I personally hate losing myself so I can relate. Losing to me is like getting stabbed in the back. It hurts tremendously to not come out victorious. I do not fault the coach for putting the team through strenuous drills or drilling formations and plays in their head.

Competition is a unique situation in life to analyze. If you can focus on the small details outside of the game, there’s a possibility that you can understand the way an athlete is performing and why a coach is behaving a certain way. In the heat of the moment, if not properly trained, one can not perform to their potential due to the pressure that the moment of competition can place on an individual. This can be just as much for coaches and how they react and act as much as it goes for player. Effective coaches know how to use the situation to their advantage and know what to do or how to react at the appropriate time. In this paper, I’ll examine the competition of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh Titans and the St. Thomas Tommies in a NCAA Division 3 playoff game. I’m watching this game from the UW-Oshkosh side, so I will be observing the UW-Oshkosh football team for the most part. With this competition between UW-Oshkosh and St. Thomas, I’ll break down this paper into four talking points and the effects of said points. These four points are pre-competition routine, feedback and reinforcement by coach, game flow and interruptions and then other thoughts and factors that I noticed during the game.

Before my soccer games, I used to always get overconfident that I can easily score by myself. All the people on my indoor soccer team are 2 years older than me, and they are always scoring without any help. I always wanted to be able to do the same as them, however, whenever I try to go up and down the field with the ball by myself, I would always get stopped by the other team. By trying to do the whole play by myself, I’ve learned how important teamwork is. However, overconfidence always gives me a boost of adrenaline before my games, making me excited to play. The characters of Alex from Perfect Chemistry and the narrator from “The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant” show overconfidence by trying hard to impress others by showing off, by trying

This reflects the presence of justice in sport which is not totally present in other areas life because in sport no matter a teams win/loss record or how many times a team will win championships, the fans still attend games, the player still play and the coaches still coach. When comparing to other areas of life such as a normal desk job, if you don’t complete your work that is assigned to you even though your efforts were strong, you are most likely to get fired. In sport although coaches do get fired often they usually find another coaching job, same for the players. Also in sport there is always a chance to win the championship the following year, but in a normal desk job you usually don’t have the chance to do the assignment your boss gave you ‘the following year’. There are many second chances for players and coaches in the world of sport that is hard to find in other areas of

Walking out on the field clothed in full confidence, I have no doubt in my mind that our team will perform to our fullest potential. As a team captain, fear is something that I keep locked away in my mind; however, I still get butterflies before every game. Before each game, I inhale two puffs, stretch every muscle, and sing to myself to remain placid. When praying for strength, courage, and protection, it is like the Holy Ghost enters my players and kindles inside of them. Their focus shifts from what could go wrong to what will go right and what they will do to help the team. When I walk on the field, my heart begins to feel like it is about to beat out of my chest, and I feel like someone is trying to take over my kingdom. On the field I am home, I have purpose, and I have a sense of belonging. While I may feel like I am suffocating, I still continue to pump my

One of the first strategies that Craig espouses from his experience with brooks is that great teams have to think of themselves as underdogs. The underdog effect is one of he greatest motivators there is in sports because it tells the athlete that they are not good enough to beat the opponent. Brooks and the athletes were “experiencing an underdog status may nonetheless feel self-efficacy, which facilitates performance success. Psychological reactance (?) theory suggests that individuals want to make their own choices and that when they perceive that their freedom is threatened, they tend to react in ways that restores their freedom”(Davis, Burnette, Allison, Stone 334). The underdog status is the

These rules consist of coaches being present and not physically abusing players. However, verbally abusing a player can sometimes pass. In the moment, a coach may be critical of a player calling them a name or by yelling. From the coach’s perspective, they are doing their job by using this tactic as a form of motivation, while this tactic could have the opposite effect on a player leaving them feeling embarrassed and depressed. These feelings can make a person feel vulnerable, worthless and self conscious within their social networks and society, potentially leading to an anxiety disorder.

“Foul Play” is a case study written to bring awareness to athletic coaches, athletic directors, and school counselors about the pressure and stress associated with competitive high school sports. The issues presented in this scenario challenge coaching staff and counseling departments to recognize “foul play” and when too much intensity on the field can lead to unwanted aggression off the field. Several theories and models would be appropriate to address the problems presented. Among these are the concepts of sports performance anxiety, aggressive behavior in elite athletes, and the psychotherapy approach to counseling student-athletes. Legal issues also need to be taken into consideration. Aspiring coaches, athletic directors, and school counselors will have the opportunity

Analyses of the behavioral and the ERP data pointed to some inconsistent findings. The behavioral data shows significant adaptation in both conditions but stronger adaptation in the single trials than the double trials. This might be attributed to the position of the adaptor and target (both appearing in the center of the screen), to using a single valence for each trial and to the exceedingly apparent identity congruence that resulted in an overlap effect. The less robustness of the effect in the double adaptation condition may be attributed to the peculiar fear-neutral adaptors having two different types of valences and which were shown at the same time. The presence of these seemingly unusual trials could have compromised the overall effect

Anne is diagnosed with depression and anxiety. She started cognitive behavioural therapy and anti-depressants. (School of Nursing and Midwifery 2014). According to Aron T Beck, ‘depression is a behavioural response to an attitude or cognition of hopelessness. Anxiety is experienced when the person has a distorted anticipation of danger.’ (Barkway 2013, p.11). This mental illness is an affect from the violence and also effects her resilience. Resilience is a trait of someone’s personality that can help them to overcome adversity. (Barkway 2013, p.98). The main model of personality has been identified as the ‘Big 5’. The Big 5 are five traits in which a person sits on a scale. The traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness

Temperament is how individuals are different from others. You are born that way different, but what's really interesting is how you change over time as you grow. For me when I was a baby I used to be really quiet because I was the only baby, didn't have any siblings, used to just sit and watch. I prefered quiet activities and I smiled a lot, but if you know me now I talk all the time literally all the time, but I still smile a lot and that proves that you don't change completely things are going to change because your lifestyle is going to change as you grow. My distractibility for example is still really high, but not all the time it usually depends on my mood. If I am having a bad day I will be distracted, but when I was a baby didn't really have a certain mood that changes because I didn't do anything differently, but as you grow you engage in different activities everyday and not all of them are going to be happy ones.

“We have plummeted to rock bottom,” fumed our soccer coach. Rock bottom. The words alluded to a record of disappointment, a voice of inadequacy, and a future of uncertainty. We invested a grueling preseason just to lose every single game in the tournament. Despite the blood stained socks, bruised shins, and sweat drenched hair in addition to our aching muscles from yesterday’s arduous games, we still could not produce a single win. On the five-hour long drive back to New Jersey after a disappointing weekend in Virginia, my mind brooded over the mistakes that resulted in conceding goals, the ostentatious celebrations by the opposing team, and the sharp rebukes from our coach. I had never reminisced about my victories the same way I contemplated my defeats. Sure, I may have admired an incredible goal or complimented a teammate on a solid tackle, but I never really thought about the strategies or dissected important plays in detail. A victory was merely an objective that had to be accomplished. An expectation that needed to be met. On that car ride, I realized that a win was merely tallied on a record sheet, but a loss was tallied on my conscious, eating away at my stream of thought.

Trait anxiety refer to relatively stable individual differences in anxiety proneness, that is, to difference between people in the tendency to perceives stressful situation as dangerous or threatening and to respond to such situations with elevations in the intensity of their state anxiety reactions. Trait anxiety also reflect individual difference in the frequency and intensity with which anxiety state have been manifested in the past, and in the probability that State anxiety will be experienced in the future

There are two kinds of anxieties, the objective anxiety and the neurotic anxiety. Objective anxiety occurs when there is a real, external threat and danger and neurotic anxiety arrives from within the self, due to unconscious feelings and memories. In order for the individual to cope with the neurotic anxiety he develops various defence mechanisms. One of them is the mechanism of projection which is when his unwanted feelings and impulses that are responsible for the anxiety, are projected to someone else. This has as a result, the individual to alleviate his anxiety but by acting in this way the real threat is still within himself and it still influence him by distorting his reality. This distortion of the reality is the effect of his projection as now he is perceiving others as not what they really are but as what he had projected onto them. Others can introject, absorb and identify with these projections and start to act and behave like they belong to them. This is what Melanie Klein named Projective identification.

The study of personality traits is beneficial in identifying the many variables that exist from human to human; the combinations of these variables provide us with a true level of individuality and uniqueness. In the field of psychology, trait theory is considered to be a key approach to the study of human personality (Crowne, 2007; Burton, Westen & Kowalski, 2009). This paper aims to identify a number of significant contributors who have played crucial roles in both the development and application of trait theory. This paper then moves focus to these theorists, outlining their theory and analysing both the strengths and weaknesses of those theories. An illustration of the methods used in trait measurement is given and includes the