Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Michael Sheard, Negative Affectivity, Confounding

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1070A/B
• Professor: Harry Prapavessis

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This assignment is based on a scientific study that supports the following proposition: Psychological interventions are effective at enhancing psychological processes and/or sport performance . My chosen article is titled effect of a psychological skills training program on swimming performance and positive psychological development by michael sheard and jim. Provide a brief background to the study: swimming is a rigorous sport that requires many long hours of training both in and out of the pool in order to develop the required strength and stamina to succeed. Demands such as this can put a high amount of stress on any person, adolescents in particular, which just so happens to be the demographic this study focuses on. Despite previous good results, relatively few studies have focused in specifically on the benefits in relation to swimming performance (particularly at the national level of competitiveness). Sheard and golby saw this as an issue due to the high level of mental toughness that swimming requires.