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How Emotions Influence Performance in Competitive Sports
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In this article, I have attempted to apply my cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion, on which I have been working for over 50 years, to an understanding of performance in competitive sports. I begin with four metatheoretical and theoretical positions: (a) stress and emotion should be considered as a single topic; (b) discrete emotion categories offer the richest and most useful information; (c) appraisal, coping, and relational meaning are essential theoretical constructs for stress and emotion; and (d) although process and structure are both essential to understanding, when it comes to stress and the emotions, we cannot afford to under-emphasize process. These positions and elaborations of them lead to my examination of how a number of discrete emotions might influence performance in competitive sports.
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- Authors
- Lazarus, R. S.
- Venue
- The Sport Psychologist
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Published
- 2000-09
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 229-252
- ISSN
- 0888-4781 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-2793
- OpenAlex
- W1944733863
- Cited by
- 982
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 9.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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