#242 Prof Marc Jones, Dr Carla Meijen & Dr Martin Turner - The Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes
The Sport Psych Show
The Importance of Social Identity in Individual Appraisals
If you have a strong identification with teammates, you're in the ideal position to influence their stress response through how you interact with them. The other important factor here is the difference between actual received support and perceived support. So even though we are talking about the social domain to an extent, it's still kind of converted to individual perception about that social domain that starts to become super important. But one of the things that kind of links to some of the stuff Colin and Mark are talking about was this idea of trait threat. We saw that those who would trait challenged as competitions got more meaningful,. Their challenge state increased. But if they were threatened, their threat state increased. Even though these are obviously
