Performing under pressure in private : activation of self-focus traits
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Leistung unter Druck im privaten Rahmen : Aktivierung von Selbstfokus-Traits |
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Autor: | Geukes, Katharina; Mesagno, Christopher; Hanrahan, Stephanie J.; Kellmann, Michael |
Erschienen in: | International journal of sport and exercise psychology |
Veröffentlicht: | 11 (2013), 1, S. 11-23, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource Elektronische Ressource (online) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1612-197X, 1557-251X |
DOI: | 10.1080/1612197X.2012.724195 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201305003253 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Self-focus and self-presentation traits have been found to predict performance under pressure. The interactionist principle of trait activation indicates that situational demands encourage different traits to be relevant to performance in high-pressure situations. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship of self-focus and self-presentation traits with performance in a private high-pressure setting. Because the private high-pressure situation offered motivational incentives but only minimal self-presentation cues, only a self-focus trait (private self-consciousness), but not self-presentation traits (public self-consciousness and narcissism), was hypothesized to predict performance under pressure in a private setting. After completing personality questionnaires, future physical education university students (N = 59) with experience in sport competitions performed eight throws at a target in low-pressure and high-pressure conditions. The conditions were identical with the exception that the high-pressure condition involved a monetary incentive and a cover story. Participants' state anxiety increased from low to high pressure. Neither self-focus nor self-presentation traits predicted performance under low pressure. Only the self-focus trait, but not self-presentation traits, negatively contributed to the prediction of high-pressure performance. Hence, findings support the applicability of the trait activation principle and underline that the situational demands of private high-pressure situations activate self-focus personality traits. Verf.-Referat