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Players mindset and dribbling

Published on October 3, 2022 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: decisione, dribbling, Rischio.

In soccer, dribbling is one of the most exciting aspects of the sport for the young soccer players. It is a sudden individual action that can change the course of the game if it results in a clear advantage for the team and an opportunity to score a goal. It requires certain psychological characteristics that can be taught to young people regardless of the fact that someone will always be better than someone else. Precisely because of its being an exciting activity in which one runs more of a risk of being blocked by the opponent than in others.
One of the relevant coach task is to teach young soccer players to take risks, therefore, teach them dribbling.

Dribbling is an action that requires:

Direct confrontation with the opponent
The taking pleasure in “jumping him”
The motivation to do one’s best
Initiative and decision-making
Anticipation and quickness of movement

Not possible when one has:

Fear of being criticized or rejected
Doubts in execution and one is slow
Fear of not being competent
Fear of the opponent
Fear of making mistakes

Briefly:

Task-oriented + soccer players are + motivated to improve soccer skills and in dribbling.
Footballers who are + result-oriented and – improvement-oriented will put less effort into taking risks and making personal decisions such as in dribbling.

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Psychology of SARS risk continue to be useful

Published on March 11, 2020 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: psicologia, Rischio, SARS.

In 2004 the Asian Journal of Social Psychology published a special issue titled SPECIAL ISSUE ON PSYCHOLOGY OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS), by Cecilia Cheng and Catherine So-kum Tang (Eds.)

The subtitle is very interesting, putting the focus on the behaviors related to the background in different culture: The psychology behind the masks: Psychological responses to the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in different regions.

Here I propose a synthesis. I believe it could help us to cope today with COVID-19

In 2002/03 the SARS epidemic alerted the world that public health is no longer a local issue. In this era of globalization, not only people and information but also viruses flow freely without borders. The treatment and prevention of novel, unknown diseases require the joint effort of government bodies and health-care professionals from various countries.

Could the current knowledge yielded from coping research help in the understanding of people’s attempts to handle the SARS outbreak?
Because SARS affected a number of regions, including people from both Asian and Western cultures, did individuals from different cultures perceive and cope with the crisis in distinct manners?
Did people attempt to handle the SARS epidemic in ways that were similar to those with which they attempt to handle stressful daily events?
To cope with the outbreak, why did some people engage in preventive health behavior while others ignore the use of preventive measures?

The findings revealed that participants who tended to use wishful thinking (wishing SARS would go away or somehow be over with) were more likely to avoid going to public areas and avoid people who they believed to be affected by SARS. Wishful thinking does not appear to facilitate engaging in critically important health behaviors, such as hand washing and using disinfectants to clean potentially contaminated surfaces

Those who tended to adopt empathic responses (try to understand how the other person felt about SARS) were more likely to undertake measures to prevent SARS, such as wearing face masks and exercising regularly. Therefore they were not only less likely to report avoiding people who may be perceived as potentially having SARS but also more likely to report engaging in precautionary measures and health behaviors likely to be viewed as effective. Hence, those who report using empathic responding in response to SARS appear to use effective precautionary health behaviors without engaging in avoidant health behaviors that were associated with significant economic and societal costs.

Cross-cultural differences in optimistic thinking between the Chinese and European Canadians during the SARS outbreak. The participants were recruited from Beijing and Toronto, and the two samples demonstrated unrealistic optimism, that is, the perception of oneself as less likely than an average person to contract SARS. Compared to their Canadian counterparts, the Chinese participants showed greater unrealistic optimism when estimating their own risks of being infected, but took more preventive measures. The authors concluded that the Chinese dialectical thinking style may have promoted the belief that both negative consequences and positive changes could coexist during the SARS crisis. This belief may have propelled the Chinese to think about their future in a more positive light, and enhance their motivation to adopt a preventive approach to cope with the crisis.

Compared to Singaporean participants who endorsed fewer of the Chinese values (i.e. prudence, industry, and civic harmony), those with a greater tendency to adopt these values were characterized by higher levels of SARS-related fears, greater defensive pessimism, the adoption of more health behaviors, and the experience of more adverse outcomes related to the outbreak.

They tended to perceive most SARS- related stressful events as uncontrollable, and used more emotion-focused coping to handle such events. These findings indicate that individuals had a propensity to be less flexible, both cognitively and behaviorally, in their attempts to handle the SARS epidemic than in their usual practice of handling stress.

Hong Kong high school students in terms of social-cognitive biases after the SARS outbreak. They found that compared to those who practiced SARS preventive behavior (i.e. the practicers), those who did not (i.e. the non- practicers) were more prone to two types of social-cognitive biases: false consensus bias and the actor-observer bias. To elaborate, the non-practicers tended to underestimate the prevalence and importance of prosocial concerns in the preventive behavior that was commonly adopted by practicers during the outbreak.

These findings shed light on how Hong Kong adolescents evaluated prevailing norms and their own motives in the prevention of an emerging epidemic. The authors pointed out that non-practicers of health behavior may believe that their behavioral pattern is widely shared and acceptable in the community, and may thus be less motivated to change their behavior.

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What we learn from Schumacher

Published on December 31, 2013 in Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: Corpo, infallibilità, lottare, Rischio, Schumacer.

We who believe in the infallibility of the body and in the mind strength, we are crushed by the accident of Schumacher and his condition to be struggling to stay alive. This is not the first time that our belief is put to the test. It ‘s already happened hundreds of times in the past but every time we convince ourselves that will not be repeated again and instead regularly there is a new victim. There is nothing so dangerous as to grow their own invincibility, because it will always be that day when you exceed the line that separates the acceptable from the unacceptable risk and then it’s over. At some point we need to explore other areas, other than those of the physical risk, otherwise it is only a matter of time. You must exit the field in which the physical risk is the main engine of our lives and choose another area of risk, perhaps more mental but certainly not least exciting if you accept this logic. You must know that sooner or later the body will ask for the bill and unfortunately it can be very salty as the story of Schumacher teaches us .

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The man walking above the Niagara falls

Published on June 17, 2012 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: funanbolo, Nick Vallenda, Rischio.

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A lezione da Thorpe e Woods

Published on November 13, 2011 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: accettare, Rischio, Thorpe, Woods.

Credo che Thorpe e Woods vadano seguiti e ammirati per ciò che fanno. Non parlo dei risultati sportivi ma della volontà di volere provare a se stessi che si può, coa? Il primo che dopo essersi ritirato si può nuovamente raggiungere altissimi livelli e il secondo che non finito, nonostante sia intorno alla 50° nel ranking. E’ possibile che vi siano anche risvolti economici alla base di quetse scelte, ma non sono di certo sufficienti a mettere nuovamente la propria faccia, sapendo di rischiare di non farcela. Questo per me è il punto fondamentale, l’accettazione del rischio, probabilmente questa è anche la caratteristica dei fuoriclasse, accettare gli errori e le disfatte ma essere lì con tutto se stessi nel volerci riuscire. Noi lo faremmo?

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Rischio o non rischio?

Published on August 12, 2011 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: atteggiamento, giovani, lavoro, Rischio.

E’ ‘ molto visto il video di un gruppo di scalatori che cantano attaccati a una parete di una montagna “Don’t worry be happy”. E’ la metafora di come ci si dovrebbe comportare oggi se si è giovani? Competenza (arrampicare), piacere per il rischio (appesi a una parete sul vuoto) e umore positivo (cantare) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPh9PTao6GQ). Il rovescio della medaglia è quanto, invece, viene descritto da un’indagine effettuata da Paola Giuliano e Antonio Spilimbergo sull’atteggiamento dei giovani americani di 18-24 anni di fronte alla recessione. I risultati indicano che è dominante la richiesta di protezione e il desiderio di prendere meno rischi nei propri investimenti (lasciare casa per cercare sbocchi di lavoro e di studio migliori) (http://www.finanzainchiaro.it/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=5469.

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