Percepción de éxito y rendimiento deportivo de un portero de waterpolo

Pese a los esfuerzos de la psicología del deporte durante décadas por comprender la relación entre autoeficacia y rendimiento deportivo, la realidad multivariante del deporte no ha permitido alcanzar conclusiones universales y generalizables a la diversidad competitiva. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar el grado de consistencia entre la percepción de éxito conductual de un guardameta de waterpolo de alto nivel y su rendimiento observable en competición. Para la medición de la percepción de éxito conductual se utilizó la Escala de autoeficacia de logro para porteros de waterpolo (Argudo, De la Vega, Tejero, & Ruiz, 2013). Para la medición del rendimiento se analizaron todos los lanzamientos recibidos por el portero en un campeonato europeo y en un campeonato mundial. Los resultados indican baja asociación entre la percepción de éxito conductual declarada por el deportista y su conducta en competición ( = ,34, p = ,035), de tal forma queDespite sport psychology’s efforts over decades to understand the relationship between self-efficacy evaluation and sports performance, the multivariate reality of sport does not make it possible to achieve universal and generalizable conclusions about competition diversity. The objective of this study was to analyze the consistency between the perception of behavioral success of a high-level water polo goalkeeper and their actual performance in competition. The self-efficacy achievement scale for water polo goalkeepers (Argudo, De la Vega, Tejero, Ruiz, 2013) was used in order to measure the perception of behavioral success. To measure performance, all throws received by the goalkeeper in a European Championship and a World Championship were analyzed. The results indicate low association between the perception of behavioral success stated by the goalkeeper and their performance in competition ( = ,34, p = ,035) which means the goalkeeper sees themselves as being more efficient than the data suggest (p = ,033, c = 0,24). Finally, these findings are discussed