Performing under pressure: Exploring the psychological state underlying clutch performance in sport

Choking vs. clutch performance: a study of sport performance under pressure.

Choking research in sport has suggested that an athlete's tendency to choke, versus give a better than usual (i.e., "clutch") performance depends on his or her personality, as well as on situational influences, such as a reliance on explicit (versus implicit) knowledge when pressured. The current study integrated these hypotheses and tested a structural equation model (SEM) to predict sport per...

The Effectiveness of Assertiveness Training on Bullying, Competitive State Anxiety and Performance Under Pressure in Futsal Players

The aim of this research was determined the effect of assertiveness training on bullying, competitive state anxiety and performance under pressure in futsal players. 32 futsal players teenage guys who scored from low to moderate were scored in assertiveness questionnaire and were purposefully placed into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group was given eight session trainin...

Performing Under Pressure: IT Execution in a $1.4bn Business Transformation

This teaching case provides a practical illustration of the challenges in executing large-scale ITbased change. It describes how the Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its service and sales systems between 2003 and 2006 with the goal of collating a “single view of client”. The case is an exemplar of staged incremental development. The sponsor set up multiple work streams and ran them as in...

Competing Under Pressure: State Anxiety, Sports Performance and Assessment

Elevated levels of anxiety are a common response to stressful competitive sports situations, are known to moderate athletic performance and are referred to as an unpleasant emotional state associated with perceptions of situational threat. The empirical studies in this dissertation considered primarily psychometric, methodological and conceptual issues of relevance for the study of anxiety and ...

Performance Decrement under Psychological Stress.