Choking Vs. Clutch Performance

How does stress affect athletes and their performance during a high stress situation? There are many athletes who have performed below their best while under extreme pressure, also there have been athletes that have excelled in performance during pressure situations. Everyone experiences stress and deals with stress in their own way. Personality is a factor in how people deal with stress in their life. In the scholarly journal, “Choking vs. Clutch Performance: A Study of Sport Performance Under Pressure”, took two hundred and forty-three participants in order to test a model in order to predict performances in sports under pressure. The test found that self-focus did not improve performance under pressure. However, the feeling of self-reported

The questionnaire either suggested perceived control factor or implicit knowledge factor. The scale used to measure these factors was 1 to 7, not at all true to very true. Each participant would should fifteen free throws at a time, during the first set the experimenter would count aloud the number of shots made by each person. Before shooting the second set the participants were told that they would be videotaped and that their performance would be shown in a psychology class. The psychology class would be shown so students could see how athletes perform under pressure. They told the participants they were interested in whether or not their performance would excel or decline. The experimenter reminded them of the number of shots they made in the first set. The tape was not shown in a class; the story was made so that there would be pressure on the participants. As they were shooting their second set there was a person videotaping at an angle of thirty degrees and ten feet away from the free throw line. Also there was another person on the side to rebound the ball. The control group was conducted the same way however, there were a couple differences. They were not told the story of being taped and shown to a psychology class and there was not a person videotaping them while they were shooting their second set of free