Elite Youth Soccer Players’ Sources and Types of Soccer Confidence
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Philosophical Underpinning
2.2. Context
2.3. Participants
2.4. Procedure
Interview Guide
2.5. Data Analysis
2.6. Enhancing Ontological Plausibility and Validity
3. Results
3.1. Types of Confidence
3.1.1. Skill Execution
3.1.2. Achievement
3.1.3. Psychological Factors
3.1.4. Superiority to Opposition
3.1.5. Tactical Awareness
3.1.6. Athlete Specific Factors
3.2. Sources of Confidence
3.2.1. Performance Accomplishments
3.2.2. Coaching
3.2.3. Social Support
3.2.4. Preparation
3.2.5. Innate Factors
3.2.6. Experience
3.2.7. Athlete Specific Factors
4. Discussion
4.1. Applied Implications
4.2. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Type of Confidence | Number of Athletes Citing Type. N = 11 | Total % of Athletes | Total % Citing in Hays et al. (2007) N = 14 | Total % Citing in Thomas et al. (2021) N = 28 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Skill Execution | 9 | 82% | 71% | 100% |
Achievement | 6 | 64% | 71% | -- |
Outcome | -- | -- | 64% | -- |
Performance | -- | -- | 29% | -- |
Physical Factors | -- | -- | 64% | 61% |
Psychological Factors | 3 | 27% | 57% | 46% |
Superiority to Opposition | 3 | 27% | 50% | -- |
Tactical Awareness | 2 | 18% | 14% | -- |
Athlete Specific Factors | 2 | 18% | 50% | -- |
Source of Confidence | Number of Athletes Citing Source (N = 11) | Total % of Athletes | Total % Citing in Hays et al. (2007) | Total % Citing in Thomas et al. (2021) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Preparation | 9 | 82% | 100% | 82% |
Physical preparation | 7 | 64% | 100% | 75% |
Mental preparation | 1 | 9% | 76% | 50% |
Holistic preparation | 7 | 64% | 57% | 14% |
Performance Accomplishments | 11 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Competition accomplishments | 11 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
Training accomplishments | 9 | 82% | 50% | 96% |
Other accomplishments | 4 | 36% | -- | 64% |
Coaching | 11 | 100% | 93% | -- |
Individual interactions with coach | 11 | 100% | -- | -- |
Interactions with coach in group | 3 | 27% | -- | -- |
Social Support | 10 | 91% | 57% | 100% |
Family | 7 | 64% | -- | -- |
Team-mates | 9 | 82% | -- | -- |
School/Friends | 3 | 27% | -- | -- |
Other | 2 | 18% | -- | -- |
Innate Factors | 4 | 36% | 50% | 29% |
Experience | 4 | 36% | 43% | -- |
Athlete Specific Factors | 4 | 36% | 50% | -- |
Competitive Advantage | -- | -- | 36% | -- |
Trust | -- | -- | 14% | -- |
Self-Awareness | -- | -- | 14% | -- |
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Greenlees, I.; Parr, A.; Murray, S.; Burkitt, E. Elite Youth Soccer Players’ Sources and Types of Soccer Confidence. Sports 2021, 9, 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports9110146
Greenlees I, Parr A, Murray S, Burkitt E. Elite Youth Soccer Players’ Sources and Types of Soccer Confidence. Sports. 2021; 9(11):146. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports9110146
Chicago/Turabian StyleGreenlees, Iain, Aimee Parr, Sarah Murray, and Esther Burkitt. 2021. "Elite Youth Soccer Players’ Sources and Types of Soccer Confidence" Sports 9, no. 11: 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/sports9110146