KIN354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Drive Theory, Catastrophe Theory
31 Jan 2018
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Common myths about anxiety in sport and exercise: Anxiety symptoms are generally the same for all sport and exercise participants. Anxiety is only relevant for athletes since exercise is non-competitive, it doesn"t lead to feeling of anxiety. Pre-competitive anxiety always negatively affects sport performance. Characteristics: elicited following an appraisal (evaluation, universal across people of all cultures, has a distinct physiology, observed through discrete facial expression, associated with unique set of action tendencies. Cognitive anxiety mental manifestation of anxiety: fear, unease, confusion, difficulty concentrating. Somatic anxiety physical manifestation of anxiety: stomachache, headache, sweating, shaking. State anxiety an unpleasant emotional arousal in face of threatening demands or dangers: a cognitive appraisal of threat is a prerequisite for the experience of this emotion. Trait anxiety reflects the existence of stable individual difference in the tendency to respond with state anxiety in the anticipation of threatening situations. Intensity of symptoms: examines amount of level of symptoms.
