Psychological skills can help athletes maximize their physical skills (Smith, Schutz, Smoll, & Ptacek, 1995) and overcome sport-related adversity. These skills may be especially beneficial to athletes performing within natural and unstable risk sport environments. The current study assessed psychological skills among risk sport athletes (N 5 232) and the impact of experience on the use of such ...

BACKGROUND With rising healthcare costs and a focus on quality, there is a growing need to promote resource stewardship in medical education. Physicians need to be able to communicate effectively with patients/caregivers seeking tests and treatments that are unnecessary. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an interactive workshop on residents' knowledge of resource stewardship and commun...

The striatal dopaminergic system has been implicated in reinforcement learning (RL), motor performance, and incentive motivation. Various computational models have been proposed to account for each of these effects individually, but a formal analysis of their interactions is lacking. Here we present a novel algorithmic model expanding the classical actor-critic architecture to include fundament...

Learning a motor skill task with Reinforcement Learning still takes a long time. A way to speed up the learning process without using much prior knowledge is to use subgoals. In this study, the use of subgoals decreased the learning time by a factor nine and we show that tests on a real robot give similar results. The price to be paid, in case the subgoals do not lie on the optimal path, is a w...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perception of emotional intelligence and beliefs in the extent to which exercising leads to mood-enhancement. methods volunteer participants (n=315) completed a 33-item self-report measure of trait emotional intelligence and an exercise-mood regulation scale. results emotional intelligence significantly correlated with be...

The main goal of this study was to reveal the basic psychometric properties of the imported Dutch Youth Version of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports (PSIS–Youth), applied on Croatian samples of athletes, to establish the relationship among different psychological skills, to find the differences in psychological skills between trainers and recreational table tennis players, as well a...

Astudent once declared, “My biggest challenge is me.” In the class Psychological Techniques for Dancers we were discussing using mental imagery and other psychological skills that can be used effectively to enhance dance practice and performance. The insightful student put into words the fact that to realize our dreams we sometimes need to reflect on ourselves. This article will describe the be...

The purpose of the article is to outline a comprehensive conceptual framework for life skills interventions by integrating aspects of Basic Needs Theory (BNT) and Life Development Intervention (LDI). In particular, we advocate the integration of (a) the three basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and (b) the needs-supportive motivational climate from BNT with the LD...

Very little is known about the psychosocial correlates of psychological morbidity among Chinese people with epilepsy (PWE). No studies have investigated the association between social relationships and psychological morbidity, while most studies examined only the negative impact of maladaptive personalities on psychological adjustment in PWE. This study examined the association of psychological...