Experts

I decided to ask my PE teacher some questions about my topic as I knew he knew a lot about it. I asked him a few different questions (to what extent do you believe that anxiety can affect our performance and what do you think is the best to help cope with anxiety) that helped me both clarify and get an opinion on both aspects of my question.

His answers to my question gave me a better understanding, as well as make me aware that personality can affect whether we interpret anxiety in ways that can facilitate or inhibit our performance. As a result, I researched more into personality to add into my report.

Source List

The research for my topic required me to keep track of all the sources I used to investigate my topic. I wrote the links down in a word document and this post so I can keep track of what sources I have found.


// Sources //

https://www.adrenalfatigue.org/saliva-testing-for-adrenal-hormones

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/psychology/arousal-and-anxiety.html

http://believeperform.com/performance/anxiety-within-sport/

http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/sports-medicine/sports-performance-anxiety.html 

http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/sports-anxiety-theory-and-research-39282#

http://www.reversaltheory.net/files/Reversal-Theory-Fact-Sheet.pdf

http://believeperform.com/education/crowd-and-the-home-advantage/

Inside Sports Psychology by Costas Karageorghis and Peter Terry;  ISBN-10: 0736033297

Pure Sport by John Kremer ISBN-10: 0415525284

http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol1Iss2/Cognitive_Behavioral_Anxiety.htm

 http://www.soccerperformance.org/specialtopics/stresanxirelax.htm

http://www.livestrong.com/article/117970-anxiety-sports/

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/companx.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmXtP_e26E

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/stage-fright-performance-anxiety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRvaGyYh-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2EzK4xvJ3c

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/meaningful-you/201309/how-overcome-sports-performance-anxiety

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/companx.htm

http://coachadkins.com/2010/11/how-does-anxiety-affect-your-performance/

"Relationship of intensity and direction of competitive trait anxiety to skill level and gender in tennis" by Perry and Williams.

 "Anxiety, Attentional Control, and Performance Impairment in Penalty Kicks" by Wilson, Wood and Vine.

"Relationship Between Competitive Trait Anxiety, State Anxiety and Golf Performance: A Field Study" by Weinburg and Genuchi

http://www.psychologycampus.com/sports-psychology/arousal-anxiety.html

http://pe-arousal.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/inverted-u-theory.html

http://thesportdigest.com/archive/article/stress-and-anxiety.html


http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20100808/NEWS/100809159

http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2011/10/23/managing-anxiety-after-personal-injury-in-athletics/

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/sportspsychology/a/Injury_Coping.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707070/

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/hollyjohnson93/causes-of-anxiety-in-sport

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/sport_psych/a/aa010603a.htm

http://www.holah.karoo.net/sport/arousal.doc

http://oneathlete.co.uk/anxiety-in-sports/

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/relaxation.htm

http://www.psychologycampus.com/sports-psychology/arousal-anxiety.html

Weeks 7, 8 and 9

During week 7 I was planning on reading 3 more articles and write up notes. I read the three sources (

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/companx.htm // http://coachadkins.com/2010/11/how-does-anxiety-affect-your-performance/ // 'Relationship of Intensity and Direction of Competitive Trait Anxiety to Skill Level and Gender in Tennis' by Perry and Williams.) and wrote notes on one of them, however didn't have time to write up notes on the other two. The three sources concreted my knowledge, as well as specifying the information to a certain sport (tennis) which I had not done before.

 

During week 8, I planned to contact two experts and start planning and buying resources for my primary research. However, due to the people I could use as experts being university lecturers, I waited until the second week back from college as I believed I was more likely to get a reply. To make up for this, I finished writing the notes from the articles the week before, and planned what I would need for my primary research.

 

The last week of summer I dedicated my EPQ work to complete as much of my research as I could, as well as organizing my work and making sure I had documented somewhere what I had done. I did as much research as I thought was appropriate as I knew I would need to find more as I started to plan my report and fit everything together. I made sure my source list was updated fully and that my notes were neat and together.