Psychological skills and “the Paras”: The indirect effects of psychological skills on endurance
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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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 449-465 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Sport Psychology |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 13 Apr 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2017 |
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