Open AccessPsychological Characteristics and Their Relation to Performance in Professional Golfers
Author(s) -
Julien Bois,
Philippe Sarrazin,
Julien Southon,
Julie Boiché
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the sport psychologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1543-2793
pISSN - 0888-4781
DOI - 10.1123/tsp.23.2.252
Subject(s) - psychology , ranking (information retrieval) , anxiety , control (management) , applied psychology , relaxation (psychology) , cognition , sport psychology , competition (biology) , descriptive statistics , test (biology) , clinical psychology , social psychology , computer science , statistics , ecology , paleontology , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , biology , mathematics , machine learning , neuroscience
This study investigated the psychological characteristics of professional golfers and their relation to golf performance. The aims of the study were (a) to provide descriptive data on professional golfers, (b) to test possible differences between successful and unsuccessful players and (c) to estimate whether psychological characteristics could predict golf performance. The data were collected from 41 male professional golfers the day before an official competition. Results revealed that players who made the cut were characterized by higher scores on performance-approach goal, cognitive and somatic anxiety, relaxation strategies, attentional control, emotional control and lower score on performance-avoidance goal. Subsequently, a multiple regression analysis revealed that higher cognitive anxiety, more frequent use of relaxation strategies and emotional control strategies were associated with better player's ranking at the end of the competition.
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