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Developing self confidence is paramount significance in order for sports persons to attain self confidence and achieve optimal / peak performance. Low self confidence can be altered through training that focuses on the role of confidence in our behavior. Self confidence concerned with accumulation of the athletes unique experiences in achieving many different things which results in the specific expectations. It is a vital part of athletic part of personality and something others quickly recognize about him or her. This article delineates the five steps involved in the developing confidence of the sports person. The developing stages involve identifying fears (first step) followed by master fear (second step) to be provided with how to master fears. Employing goal mapping involve in third step where athletes have used goal setting as a way to increase self-confidence and boost self-esteem. The next stage includes boosting belief in athlete's ability. The final stage involves mastering confidence challenge, well preparation, and staying positive.
Keywords: self-confidence, athletes
Although we hear athletes and exercisers talk about confidence all the time, it is not an easy term to define precisely. Sports psychologists define self-confidence as the belief that you can successfully perform a desired behavior.
Vealy (1986) originally viewed self confidence as both a disposition and a state. Vealey (2001) had seen sport self confidence as a social cognitive construct that can be more trait like or more state like, depending on the temporal frame of reference used. Confidence might be something you feel today and there fore be unstable (statelike), or it may be part of your personality and thus be very stable (trait like). Most importantly confident athletes believe in their ability to acquire the necessary skills and competencies, both physical and mental, to reach their potential. Less confident players doubt whether they are good enough or have what it takes to be successful.
It is important to make final comment about defining self confidence. Specifically, some evolving and recent research (Vealey & Knight, 2002) has revealed that like many other current personality constructs, self confidence may be multidimensional, consisting of several aspects (e.g., confidence about one's ability to execute physical skills)
Research, indicating that the factor most consistently distinguishing highly successful from less successful athletes is confidence (Jones...