Self-Consciousness, Self-presentation, and Performance Under Pressure: Who Chokes, and When?

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Heaton ◽  
Harold Sigall
Keyword(s):  
Self Presentation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

Age and Performance Under Pressure

2012 ◽  
pp. 134-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold O. Fried ◽  
Loren W. Tauer
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Mental Ability ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Athletic Ability ◽  
Front End ◽  
Ladies Professional Golf Association ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

This article explores how well an individual manages his or her own talent to achieve high performance in an individual sport. Its setting is the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). The order-m approach is explained. Additionally, the data and the empirical findings are presented. The inputs measure fundamental golfing athletic ability. The output measures success on the LPGA tour. The correlation coefficient between earnings per event and the ability to perform under pressure is 0.48. The careers of golfers occur on the front end of the age distribution. There is a classic trade-off between the inevitable deterioration in the mental ability to handle the pressure and experience gained with time. The ability to perform under pressure peaks at age 37.

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance

2002 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 947
Author(s):  
Pamela Knights ◽  
James G. Watson
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals I Am Great, but Only When I Also Want to Dominate: Maladaptive Narcissism Moderates the Relationship Between Adaptive Narcissism and Performance Under Pressure

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335
Author(s):  
Shuge Zhang ◽  
Ross Roberts ◽  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Andrew Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Task ◽  
Motor Tasks ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
Psychophysiological Response ◽  
Task Processing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Performance Under Pressure

Narcissism–performance research has focused on grandiose narcissism but has not examined the interaction between its so-called adaptive (reflecting overconfidence) and maladaptive (reflecting a domineering orientation) components. In this research, the authors tested interactions between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism using two motor tasks (basketball and golf in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively) and a cognitive task (letter transformation in Experiment 3). Across all experiments, adaptive narcissism predicted performance under pressure only when maladaptive narcissism was high. In the presence of maladaptive narcissism, adaptive narcissism also predicted decreased pre-putt time in Experiment 2 and an adaptive psychophysiological response in Experiment 3, reflecting better processing efficiency. Findings suggest that individuals high in both aspects of narcissism perform better under pressure thanks to superior task processing. In performance contexts, the terms “adaptive” and “maladaptive”—adopted from social psychology—are oversimplistic and inaccurate. The authors believe that “self-inflated narcissism” and “dominant narcissism” are better monikers for these constructs.

The Representation of Female Friendships on Young Women’s Myspace Profiles

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Shields Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Female Friendships ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter examines the representation of female friendship on MySpace, based on a sample of 45 public MySpace profiles owned by young Australian women, aged between 18 and 21 years old. Two prominent constructions of female friendship on this social network site are outlined: firstly, female friendships as idealistically party-oriented, ‘wild’, and rowdy; and secondly, female friendships as close, loyal, and intimate — comparable in the depth of feeling and connection expressed to romantic partnerships or family ties. These idealised, performative constructions of female friendship, in the context of online self-presentation, also seem to rely on exclusivity, and opposition of selves and friendship groups to a feminised outsider/‘other’. Some of the political implications of such representation are discussed from a feminist perspective. I suggest some ways in which ideals and goals of female representation to emerge from second-wave feminist media and performance critique might be said to have actualised and failed to actualise in these online performances of friendship and identity created by young women.

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