Predictive ability of self-handicapping and self-esteem in physical activity achievement context

Richards, Hugh; Johnson, Georgette; Collins, David; Wood, Juliette

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(01)00060-5

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“…The prediction is even more accurate when using these two variables together than when using either variable alone. Previous research has reached similar conclusions for claimed (Finez, 2008) or behavioral (Richards, Johnson, Collins, & Wood, 2002) self-handicapping. As Finez (2008) proposed, self-esteem level may enable researchers and practitioners to estimate athletes' motivation to protect and/or enhance their self, while claimed self-handicapping tendency may enable researchers and practitioners to estimate the extent to which athletes are likely to engage in claimed self-handicapping to do so.…”

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Do Athletes Claim Handicaps in Low Ego-Threatening Conditions? Re-Examining the Effect of Ego-Threat on Claimed Self-Handicapping

Finez

Berjot

Rosnet

et al. 2011

The Sport Psychologist

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One hundred and three athletes participated in a motor task that was ostensibly designed to detect their physical ability (high ego-threatening condition) or provide pretesting data for an upcoming study (low ego-threatening condition) and were then given the opportunity to claim handicaps that could impair their performance on this task. Extending previous findings that high self-handicappers (i.e., athletes who scored high on the self-handicapping scale) and low self-esteem athletes engage in claimed self-handicapping in high ego-threatening conditions, the results reveal that they may also engage in this strategy in low ego-threatening conditions. In the low ego-threatening condition, athletes’ self-esteem and self-handicapping tendency explained together 33% of the handicaps they claimed.

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Do Athletes Claim Handicaps in Low Ego-Threatening Conditions? Re-Examining the Effect of Ego-Threat on Claimed Self-Handicapping

Finez

Berjot

Rosnet

et al. 2011

The Sport Psychologist

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“…Unfortunately, even if the examination performance was perceived relevant, participants had completed informed consent assuring them that any information pertaining to them would not be divulged. This could have undermined their motivation to protect their self-esteem (Richards, et al, 2002).…”

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Relations between Female Students' Personality Traits and Reported Handicaps to Rhythmic Gymnastics Performance

2005

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The present study evaluated the relative contributions of Self-esteem, Trait anxiety, and Public Self-consciousness to self-handicapping on a sex-typed task, within a specific academic sport context. Prior to the competitive examination used to recruit French Physical Education Teachers, female sport students (N = 74) were asked to list and rate on a 7-point scale handicaps which could be disruptive to their Rhythmic Gymnastics performance. Self-esteem did not account for significant variance in any category of handicaps. Trait Anxiety was negatively related to handicaps related to Rhythmic Gymnastics and to Social and Work Commitments. Public Self-consciousness was significantly related to endorsement of Friends and Family Commitments handicaps. These results were discussed in relation to the literature.

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“…Military recruits with high trait self-handicapping and low global self-esteem were found to voluntarily withdraw from training more often than other recruits. Trait self-handicapping and self-esteem were able to correctly classify completers and dropouts with an overall accuracy of 82.9%, which represented a significant gain of 23.6% over chance (Richards, Johnson, Collins, & Wood, 2002). Fear of failure was positively related to trait self-handicapping in physical education (PE) students and indirectly related to their enjoyment of PE and their intentions to continue participating in optional PE in the future (Ntoumanis, Taylor, & Standage, 2010).…”

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Moving away from counterproductive thoughts in exercise settings: Perfectionism, self-talk, self-handicapping, and social loafing.

Berger

Tobar

2019

APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Volume 2: Exercise Psychology (Vol. 2).

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Predictive ability of self-handicapping and self-esteem in physical activity achievement context

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Do Athletes Claim Handicaps in Low Ego-Threatening Conditions? Re-Examining the Effect of Ego-Threat on Claimed Self-Handicapping

Do Athletes Claim Handicaps in Low Ego-Threatening Conditions? Re-Examining the Effect of Ego-Threat on Claimed Self-Handicapping

Relations between Female Students' Personality Traits and Reported Handicaps to Rhythmic Gymnastics Performance

Moving away from counterproductive thoughts in exercise settings: Perfectionism, self-talk, self-handicapping, and social loafing.

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