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    Self-confidence and performance: A little self-doubt helps.

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    Authors
    Woodman, Tim
    Akehurst, Sally cc
    Hardy, Lew
    Beattie, Stuart
    Affiliation
    Aberystwyth University
    Bangor University
    Issue Date
    2010-06-04
    
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    Objectives: To test the hypothesis that a decrease in confidence on a well-learned task will increase effort and performance. Design: A 2 (group: control, experimental) 2 (trial: practice, competition) mixed-model with repeated measures on the second factor. Method: Expert skippers’ (n ¼ 28) self-confidence was reduced via a combination of task (i.e., change of rope) and competitive demands. Performance was the number of skips in a 1-min period. On-task effort was measured via the verbal reaction time to an auditory probe. Results: The group trial interaction (F (1, 26) ¼ 6.73, p < .05, h2 ¼ .21) supported the hypothesis: Posthoc tests revealed a significant decrease in self-confidence and a significant improvement in performance from practice to competition for the experimental group only. No significant effort effects were revealed. Conclusions: Some self-doubt can benefit performance, which calls into question the widely accepted positive linear relationship between self-confidence and performance. As effort did not increase with decreased confidence, the precise mechanisms via which self-confidence will lead to an increase or a decrease in performance remain to be elucidated.
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    Woodman, T. et al (2010) 'Self-confidence and performance: A little self-doubt helps', Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 11 (6):467.
    Publisher
    Elsevier
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    Psychology of Sport and Exercise
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622283
    DOI
    10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.05.009
    Additional Links
    http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1469029210000750
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    14690292
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.05.009
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