An Investigation into Handedness and Choking under Pressure in Sport

Autor/inn/en	Mesagno, Christopher; Garvey, Jacob; Tibbert, Stephanie J.; Gröpel, Peter
Titel	An Investigation into Handedness and Choking under Pressure in Sport
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 90 (2019) 2, S.217-226 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mesagno, Christopher) ORCID (Gröpel, Peter)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2019.1588935
Schlagwörter	Handedness; Team Sports; Performance; Athletes; Failure; Stress Variables; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Task Analysis; Anxiety; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Diagnostic Tests; Foreign Countries; Adults; Young Adults; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linkshändigkeit; Mannschaftssport; Achievement; Leistung; Athlet; Aufgabenanalyse; Angst; Korrelation; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Ausland; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Australien
Abstract	When athletes fail to perform at an expected level during an important moment, it is implied the athletes have experienced "choking" (sudden decline in performance) under pressure.". Researchers have reported that persistent left-hemispheric activation patterns occur when an athlete experiences considerable performance deteriorations under pressure. Researchers have also observed differences in brain activation patterns between left- and right-handed people on a variety of physical and cognitive tests, with the left-hemispheric activation more pronounced in right-handed participants. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether athletes' handedness may be linked to choking susceptibility (i.e., likelihood to experience performance decline under pressure). Method: Twenty right-handed and 13 left-handed experienced Australian football players completed 15 shot attempts, in both a low-pressure and a high-pressure condition. Both groups displayed equal state anxiety increases due to the pressure manipulation, indicating similar increases in anxiety in both handedness groups. Results: Differences were indicated in performance between the left- and right-handed groups during the high-pressure condition, with the left-handed group maintaining, and the right-handed participants declining, performance. Conclusion: Future electroencephalogram (EEG) research investigating this link may clarify the effect between handedness and choking. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01