Abstract
An investigation into competitor’s key psychological states and home advantage: The interaction between venue and subsequent performance
Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol.25(2), pp.S64-S65
Annual Conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 2007 (Bath, United Kingdom, 12-Sep-2007–14-Sep-2007)
2007
Abstract
According to Courneya and Carron’s conceptual framework (1992; Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 14, 28 – 39), competitors’ critical psychological states incorporating mood, is a major component of home advantage (HA). However, research examining this relationship has found equivocal results (Carron et al., 2005: Journal of Sports Sciences, 23, 395 – 407). Possible methodological explanations of these inconsistent results include the lack of repeated measures based designs (Bray & Martin, 2003: Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 4, 117 – 123) and a limited consideration of an intervention between venue and subsequent performance results. The purpose of this investigation was thus to increase our understanding of the relationship between key psychological states and HA by investigating the interaction between competition venue (home and away) and subsequent performance (win and loss) for profile of mood states (POMS) scores. Fourteen male volunteers (mean age 22.9, s¼1.4years) all from the same soccer team completed POMS 60 to 45 min prior to four league competitions: away win, away loss, home win, and home loss. 262 repeated ANOVA for total mood disturbance (TMD) demonstrated a significant interaction between venue and result (F1,13¼4.70, P50.05). Lost hoc paired samples t-tests showed the away scores to be higher, with a significant difference between home and way win scores, but most importantly, far larger and again significant differences between home and away loss scores. Further examination of the separate POMS scales showed tension to be the likely key mediating factor. Tension scores again showed a significant interaction between venue and result, F1,13¼11.20, P50.01. Post hoc analysis showed the away scores to be higher, with a non-significant difference between home and away win scores, but most interestingly, a significant difference between home and away loss scores. Furthermore, away losses were significantly higher than away wins. These results suggest that for competitors’ key psychological states, competition venue and subsequent performance do interact and that tension may U47be a key mood state. These findings support the contention that competitors’ key psychological states is a major component of Courneya and Carron’s (1992) conceptual framework of HA. Furthermore, applied practitioners may do well to target performer’s tension in attempts to negate the HA effect.
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- Title
- An investigation into competitor’s key psychological states and home advantage: The interaction between venue and subsequent performance
- Authors
- J K Parker (Author) - University of GloucestershireR Newell (Author) - University of GloucestershireGeoff Lovell (Author) - University of Gloucestershire
- Publication details
- Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol.25(2), pp.S64-S65
- Conference details
- Annual Conference of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 2007 (Bath, United Kingdom, 12-Sep-2007–14-Sep-2007)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2007
- DOI
- 10.1080/02640410701619937
- ISSN
- 0264-0414
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450397302621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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