Ottens, Mariëlle E. (2022) Finding Indicators of Resilience Losses in Time Series of Psychological Parameters in Youth Soccer Players. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Resilience is an important concept in the development of youth elite athletes. It is a dynamical process which entails athletes’ bouncing back to their previous level of functioning after exposure to a stressor. Resilience will be approached as an individual-specific process that unfolds over time. In this current research, different statistical indicators of resilience losses were explored in time series data of psychological parameters (i.e., self-efficacy and self-rated performance) of youth soccer players. These indicators are changes in mean, the slope, autocorrelation, and fluctuations, which are measured in time series data of self-efficacy and self-rated performance. The sample consists of 18 male youth players of a professional soccer academy in The Netherlands. The players completed some single-item self-report questions about physical and psychological aspects (i.e., self-efficacy, self-rated performance, and life-events) on a tablet in the locker room before and after their training or match. This data has been analyzed by means of a Changepoint analysis. The focus was on changepoints in statistical indicators, prior to a decrease in mean, to investigate which changepoints are occurring before a resilience loss. The study reveals that in 50% of the cases of self-efficacy and 61% of the cases of self-rated performance, a specific pattern of indicators occurs prior to a drop in self-efficacy and self-rated performance, which can be seen as a warning signal of a resilience loss. In specific, if multiple indicators occur together, this is often a warning signal for a possible decrease in the resilience of a player. This finding can be valuable for soccer organizations because this could mean that we can see and potentially avoid resilience losses in practice, for example by a timely intervention by a sport psychologist or coach. Keywords: resilience losses, self-efficacy, soccer, changepoints, warning signals.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hartigh, J.R. den and Neumann, N.D. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 07:49 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 07:49 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1042 |
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