Psychological skills and “the Paras”: The indirect effects of psychological skills on endurance

Rosemary Arthur; James  Fitzwater; Ross Roberts; James  Hardy; Calum Arthur

doi:10.1080/10413200.2017.1306728

Psychological skills and “the Paras”: The indirect effects of psychological skills on endurance

Rosemary Arthur, James Fitzwater , Ross Roberts , James Hardy , Calum Arthur

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Abstract

We examined the indirect effects of basic psychological skills (PS) on military endurance through enhanced advanced PS, whilst controlling for fitness. British Army recruits (n = 159) participated in three endurance events for Parachute Regiment selection and completed an adapted Test of Performance Strategies questionnaire (Hardy et al., 2010). Following confirmatory factor analyses, the multiple mediation regression analyses using PROCESS (Hayes, 2013) suggested that goal-setting, imagery and relaxation all had positive indirect effects on endurance via activation, with goal setting also impacting on endurance via negative thinking. These data provide some support for basic PS influencing endurance via advanced PS.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Early online date	21 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2017.1306728
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 21 Mar 2017

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Psychological Skills
Endurance
PROCESS
Mediation

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