Week 6 Update

This week I focused on my primary research. I started by reading a few articles containing pieces of previously done research.

The website I used the most was; http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol1Iss2/Cognitive_Behavioral_Anxiety.htm as it contained many pieces of research in enough detail for what I needed, but if I wanted to go into further detail about the research I could. It gave me an idea of how I could research what I wanted to research.

I also used an article I found on Google Scholar, that was a piece of research into the effects on anxiety on a rugby players performance. This was a longer, more specific article that also gave some context into the research they conducted.

After reading the articles/website, I started to plan my own research. I first came up with a few ideas of what I could research into (for example whether performing with an audience affects anxiety levels/interpretation of anxiety.) I wrote my ideas down and then made short notes on how I could conduct research for each of my ideas.

I will decide the actual hypothesis I will go for after I have finished my research, as I will then know what I would like to find out more about.