TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological skills and “the Paras”
T2 - The indirect effects of psychological skills on endurance
AU - Arthur, Rosemary
AU - Fitzwater, James
AU - Roberts, Ross
AU - Hardy, James
AU - Arthur, Calum
N1 - 2017 Taylor & Francis. This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - We examined the indirect effects of basic psychological skills (PS) on military endurance through 26 enhanced advanced PS, whilst controlling for fitness. British Army recruits (n = 159) participated 27 in three endurance events for Parachute Regiment selection and completed an adapted Test of 28 Performance Strategies questionnaire (Hardy et al., 2010). Following confirmatory factor analyses, 29 the multiple mediation regression analyses using PROCESS (Hayes, 2013) suggested that goal-30 setting, imagery and relaxation all had positive indirect effects on endurance via activation, with 31 goal setting also impacting on endurance via negative thinking. These data provide some support 32 for basic PS influencing endurance via advanced PS.
AB - We examined the indirect effects of basic psychological skills (PS) on military endurance through 26 enhanced advanced PS, whilst controlling for fitness. British Army recruits (n = 159) participated 27 in three endurance events for Parachute Regiment selection and completed an adapted Test of 28 Performance Strategies questionnaire (Hardy et al., 2010). Following confirmatory factor analyses, 29 the multiple mediation regression analyses using PROCESS (Hayes, 2013) suggested that goal-30 setting, imagery and relaxation all had positive indirect effects on endurance via activation, with 31 goal setting also impacting on endurance via negative thinking. These data provide some support 32 for basic PS influencing endurance via advanced PS.
U2 - 10.1080/10413200.2017.1306728
DO - 10.1080/10413200.2017.1306728
M3 - Article
SN - 1041-3200
VL - 29
SP - 449
EP - 465
JO - Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
IS - 4
ER -