English Assignment For Students

this is my topic (TO DETERMINE HOW BADLY ANXIETY RESULTS INTO UNDERPERFORMANCE IN SPORTS)

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The different resources that I have found for this assignment are mainly journal articles
and research papers. This is useful because has helped me to get a wide range of idea about the
relationship between tension or anxiety and the underperformance of players in the games or the
sports. The journal articles or the pdfs are very useful as they show the topic backed by the
different arguments and the counter-arguments that have been put forward by the different
scholars. These sources are talent from the range of 2016 till the present day, which shows that
all the different findings are updated and there is no such backdated information that is available.
It is for this reason that these sources have been useful.
I have read the sources like the pdfs and the online articles that are available on anxiety
among players and their relationship with their underperformance in sports. One of the sources
that have been read in detail is the article named When You Watch Your Team Fall Apart –
Coaches' and Sports Psychologists' Perceptions on Causes of Collective Sports Team
Collapse.
Wergin, Vivian Vanessa, et al. "When You Watch Your Team Fall Apart–Coaches' and
Sports Psychologists' Perceptions on Causes of Collective Sports Team Collapse." Frontiers
in Psychology 10 (2019): 1331. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01331
The authors of this work are-
V. Vanessa Wergin1*, Clifford J. Mallett1,2, Christopher Mesagno3, Zsuzsanna Zimanyi1†,
and Jürgen Beckmann1,2

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 1Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Chair of Sport Psychology, Technical
University of Munich, Munich, Germany
 2Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of Movement and Nutrition
Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
 3School of Health and Life Sciences, Federation University Australia, Ballarat,
QLD, Australia
This article has been found from Google scholar and it is a properly updated peer-reviewed
and authentic journal.Authors in this article are talking about the collective team collapse that
takes place when there is a sudden irreversible underperform mace seen among the players. In
such cases, they are not able to get back to their original strength that is from the position from
where they started. It is evident from this article that the underperformance in the games or
sports takes place because of different reasons and one among them being the anxiety among the
players (Wergin, Vanessa, et al., p-2115)
A relativist ontology and a constructivist epistemology were used to understand the
connection of the psychology of the coaches and also the players on one hand and the collective
collapsing of the team in the other. Abductive reasoning was used as a method of data analysis as
it favors the practical actions that have taken place over the different theoretical aspects. The age
of the Participants' ranged around, from 25 to 55 for coaches (M = 34.14, SD = 10.80) and from
38 to 55 for sport psychologists (M = 45.50, SD = 8.35). All participants were coaching either the
German national team of their sport or a team playing in between first and fourth divisions in
Germany. This is evident from the article that often the presuppose importance of the game
creates a huge pressure and also gives rise to a kind of anxiety among the players. They are often

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under the constant pressure of playing well and they keep on thinking about the perceived
importance of the game. This, in turn, creates huge anxiety and it is because of this increasing
level of anxiety that the players are often not able to give their best performances in the sorts and
therefore may lose the game (Masaki, Hiroaki, et al., p-104). However, I was of this counter-
argument that the coaches can never be responsible for the failure or the underperformance of the
players in the team because they support their players throughout.
However this article has changed my argument because I have been able to learn that of the
indirectly the coaches are also responsible for the underperformance as they create anxiety
among the players (Wergin, Vivian Vanessa, et al., p-2115) argued that often the incorrect
leadership strategies used by the coaches gives rise to the anxiety and extra added pressure
among the players. As it is a known fact that before any tournament the players are under huge
stress but they often suffer from the feeling of responsibility of the next mistake (Markati,
Alexandra, et al,p-521 ) The coaches so supervisors often transfer the responsibility to the
players. This transfer of responsibility often makes the players consider themselves responsible
for the next mistake or the next loophole in the sports (Solli et al.,p-525 ). This has also been
understood from the article that this particular phenomenon usually applies to the key players or
the most important like the lead players. This often causes the pressure or the anxiety to come
down over all the other players and therefore has a bad or negative impact on the whole team as
well.
This has been a very helpful article in understanding the creation and impact of anxiety on
the player's psyche. However, in the future, the next set of information I would like to find out is
about the measures to stop this negative impact of anxiety and also to see whether enough work

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has been one in regards to coaches training facility as to how they can reduce the anxiety level
among players.

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References
Hills, Samuel P., et al. "Profiling the responses of soccer substitutes: A review of current
literature." Sports Medicine 48.10 (2018): 2255-2269.
Markati, Alexandra, et al. "Psychological and situational determinants of burnout in adolescent
athletes." International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 17.5 (2019): 521-536.
Masaki, Hiroaki, et al. "Neural correlates of choking under pressure: athletes high in sports
anxiety monitor errors more when performance is being evaluated." Developmental
neuropsychology 42.2 (2017): 104-112.
Solli, Guro Strøm, Espen Tønnessen, and Øyvind Sandbakk. "The Multidisciplinary Process
Leading to Return From Underperformance and Sustainable Success in the World’s Best
Cross-Country Skier." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 1.aop
(2020): 1-8.
Wergin, V. Vanessa, et al. "When suddenly nothing works anymore within a team–Causes of
collective sport team collapse." Frontiers in psychology 9 (2018): 2115.
Wergin, Vivian Vanessa, et al. "When You Watch Your Team Fall Apart–Coaches' and Sports
Psychologists' Perceptions on Causes of Collective Sports Team Collapse." Frontiers in
psychology 10 (2019): 1331.