Article: Negative self-talk during sport performance: relationships with pre-competition anxiety and goal-performance discrepancies.(Report)

The present investigation examined relationships between pre-competition anxiety, goal-performance discrepancies, and athletes'negative self-talk while performing. Two studies were conducted with athletes who took part in middle-distance cross-country events. The first (N = 38)focused on the relationships between negative self-talk and the intensity and direction of anxiety. Cognitive anxiety intensity had a stronger relationship with negative self-talk (r = .34) than somatic anxiety intensity (r = .23). Furthermore, it was revealed that individuals experiencing anxiety symptoms as facilitative reported less negative self-talk than those experiencing anxiety symptoms as ...

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