TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive emotion in sport: current status and future directions
AU - McCarthy, Paul
N1 - <p>Originally published in: International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2011), 4 (1), pp.50-69.</p>
PY - 2011/4/1
Y1 - 2011/4/1
N2 - Emotions have firmly established their place in sport psychology research over the past 40 years. For many decades following World War II, mainstream psychology researchers placed negative emotions (e.g., anxiety) ahead of positive emotions (e.g., happiness) but positive emotions are now a genuine, promising field of research because of their influence on specific components of performance (e.g., attention) and psychological well-being. The benefits of these emotions have hitherto not been wholly realized in a sport context, especially in their capacity to generate greater self-efficacy, motivation, attention, problem-solving, and coping with adversity. Although the sport emotion literature is sprinkled with studies that specifically examined positive emotion in sport settings, the breadth and depth of this research is too thin to make bold claims about the value of positive emotions in the emotion-performance relation.
AB - Emotions have firmly established their place in sport psychology research over the past 40 years. For many decades following World War II, mainstream psychology researchers placed negative emotions (e.g., anxiety) ahead of positive emotions (e.g., happiness) but positive emotions are now a genuine, promising field of research because of their influence on specific components of performance (e.g., attention) and psychological well-being. The benefits of these emotions have hitherto not been wholly realized in a sport context, especially in their capacity to generate greater self-efficacy, motivation, attention, problem-solving, and coping with adversity. Although the sport emotion literature is sprinkled with studies that specifically examined positive emotion in sport settings, the breadth and depth of this research is too thin to make bold claims about the value of positive emotions in the emotion-performance relation.
KW - sport psychology
KW - positive emotion
U2 - 10.1080/1750984X.2011.560955
DO - 10.1080/1750984X.2011.560955
M3 - Article
VL - 4
SP - 50
EP - 69
JO - International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 1
ER -