“…Furthermore, even when all eight skills have been measured in research (e.g., Frey, Laguna, & Ravizza, 2003), the authors have not always reported subscale scores and instead have collapsed all the psychological skills from the TOPS into a single psychological-skill score (thus negating the variety of skills within the TOPS). The four skills have also received widespread attention in both single-skill (e.g., Evans, Jones, & Mullen, 2004;Johnson, Hrycaiko, Johnson, & Halas, 2004) and multiple-skill (e.g., Hanton & Jones, 1999;Thelwell, Greenlees, & Weston, 2006) applied studies. Finally, although we acknowledge the alternative psychological skills used in sporting performance, they decided to limit the number of skills to the four mentioned previously, given that this article represents the first study examining psychological skills in a coaching context.…”