CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 361Sport Psychology and PerformanceSports and Physical Education ResearchMotivation and Self-Concept in Sports

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 65 of the 65 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Self-Talk and Sports Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis, Zourbanos, Nikos, Galanis, Evangelos, Theodorakis, Yiannis·2011·Perspectives on Psychological Science
DOI 10.1177/1745691611413136
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Based on the premise that what people think influences their actions, self-talk strategies have been developed to direct and facilitate human performance. In this article, we present a meta-analytic review of the effects of self-talk interventions on task performance in sport and possible factors that may moderate the effectiveness of self-talk. A total of 32 studies yielding 62 effect sizes were included in the final meta-analytic pool. The analysis revealed a positive moderate effect size (ES = .48). The moderator analyses showed that self-talk interventions were more effective for tasks involving relatively fine, compared with relatively gross, motor demands, and for novel, compared with well-learned, tasks. Instructional self-talk was more effective for fine tasks than was motivational self-talk; moreover, instructional self-talk was more effective for fine tasks rather than gross tasks. Finally, interventions including self-talk training were more effective than those not including self-talk training. The results of this study establish the effectiveness of self-talk in sport, encourage the use of self-talk as a strategy to facilitate learning and enhance performance, and provide new research directions.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/1745691611413136

Cites

65 of 65 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 65 references

Research works printed but not linked: 12

  1. *Cornspan A. S., 2004, Journal of Mental Imagery, 28, 59
  2. *Goudas M., 2006, Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 3, 105
  3. Hardy J., 2009, Advances in applied sport psychology: A review, 37
  4. *Harvey D. T., 2002, International Sports Journal, 6, 84
  5. Hatzigeorgiadis A., 2006, Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 3, 164
  6. *Hatzigeorgiadis A., 2009, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 185
  7. *Malouff J. M., 2008, Journal of Sport Behavior, 31, 264
  8. *Malouff J. M., 2006, Journal of Sport Behavior, 29, 159
  9. *Masciana R. C., 2001, International Sports Journal, 5, 31
  10. *Peluso E. A., 2005, Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 4, 543
  11. *Tod D. A., 2008, National Strength and Conditioning Association, 23, 196
  12. *Van Raalte J. L., 1995, Journal of Sport Behavior, 18, 50

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 301–358 of 358

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Zourbanos, N., Galanis, E., & Theodorakis, Y.
Affiliations
  • University of Thessaly (GR)
  • Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece
Corresponding author
Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis
ORCID
Venue
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2011-07
Volume
6
Issue
4
Pages
348-356
ISSN
  • 1745-6916 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-6924
DOI
10.1177/1745691611413136
OpenAlex
W2057172229
Cited by
361
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 47 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 5
FWCI
2.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Thessaly Institutional Repository (University of Thessaly) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Sports and Physical Education Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
Keywords
self-talk, athletic performance, instructional self-talk, motivational self-talk, motor skill learning, task novelty, moderators of intervention effectiveness

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review