scholarly journals Características de força psicológica no Judo: percepções de treinadores

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Virgílio Silva ◽  
Cláudia Dias ◽  
Nuno Corte-Real ◽  
António Manuel Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Attention Regulation ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Construct Psychology ◽  
Different Levels

The aim of this research was to explore coaches’ perceptions about mental toughness characteristics in competitive Judo, in light of current single-sport mental toughness literature. Nine Portuguese Judo coaches from different levels of achievement (non-elite, sub-elite and elite) were interviewed. The protocol used for semi-structured interviews was based on <em>Personal Construct Psychology</em> “sociality” and “dichotomy” corollaries (Kelly, 1991). A total of 162 <em>verbatim</em> transcribed pages resulted as raw data. Properties and dimensions of the conceptual categories emerged from the data. Inductive content analysis revealed 22 attributes of mental toughness. Only eight were mentioned by all participants: resilience, self-motivation, self-confidence, self-improvement, work discipline, attention regulation, emotional regulation and competitiveness. In reference to previous researches exploring mental toughness on a single sport, our results in Judo reinforced large similarities across sports. However, slight differences were discussed in relation to three mental toughness characteristics not previously identified in literature: combativity, self-esteem and adaptability. In addition, other attributes were found to be peculiar to Judo, but not exclusive, due to its form of expression: tactical awareness, combativity and self-presentation regulation. Combativity was the only attribute that stood out as being rather peculiar to Judo.

Revisiting the Performance Profile Technique: Theoretical Underpinnings and Application

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Gucciardi ◽  
Sandy Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Construct Psychology ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Profile Technique

The performance profile technique (Butler, 1989, 1991), which stems from a personal construct psychology (PCP; Kelly, 1955/1991) framework, has become a useful methodology for identifying and understanding an athlete’s perceived need for areas of improvement. Despite the popularity of this technique, current descriptions and practices fail to appreciate key tenets of PCP which offer a greater insight into one’s perspective. Accordingly, the purposes of this paper are to revisit the performance profile technique and describe an extension of its current form by drawing on these key PCP tenets as well as providing an example of the revised methodology in practice. Following a brief overview of PCP, we outline two key tenets of this theoretical framework that have guided the revised version of the performance profile technique presented here. We conclude with a case example of the new methodology in practice using an Australian footballer’s perception of mental toughness.

A personal construct approach to avoiding teacher “burnout” and “rustout”

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
C. T. Patrick Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Teacher Stress ◽  
Teacher Burnout ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Idiographic Approach ◽  
Construct Psychology

Personal construct psychology enabled teacher stress to be conceptualised in terms of their perceptions of their ability to cope with stressors. Different degrees of support were seen in terms of the teachers' allocation of dependencies. Pre- and post-intervention questionnaires and FOCUS-ed (or cluster analysed) Dependency (individual and mode) grids were used to reveal and manipulate 11 teachers' resources and then to monitor how their group levels of stress were affected. Although the study reflected an idiographic approach rather than a substantive pattern, stress was reduced for the highly stressed, maintained for the moderately stressed and increased for the low stressed. Since using a not coping rather than a coping perspective characterised the distressed group before the intervention, teachers may need to emphasise a more affirmative stance. Once teachers establish what they construe as stressful and what support they can use, they are in a more informed position to engage in stress management or maintenance.

scholarly journals A Constructivist Approach to Visualise Organisational Agility

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Henning Bundtzen ◽  
Mark Heckmann ◽  
Gerriet Hinrichs
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Procrustes Analysis ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Organisational Agility ◽  
Construct Psychology

The research question we would like to answer with this article is if agile related constructs or personal assessment criteria can be elicited from a personal construct system of employees and leaders by carrying out a repertory grid study in an organisation. The methodology of personal construct psychology was chosen to get an unbiased view of the corporate culture. In a plannable world an organisational structure with a hierarchy of executives and managers following a vertical top-down approach makes sense. A world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) requires a different model to organisational design. Horizontal integration that fosters involvement and empowerment has proven to be an agile response to this new environment. Consequently, agile management methods are a key instrument for an organisation to prepare for future challenges in a competitive industry. But how can an organisation assess its own agile status quo? This research uses personal construct psychology (PCP) to visualize the agility status of an organisation. A range of recent empirical and practical research articles were studied to filter the most relevant practices and critical factors of organisational agility. The findings are compared to a data basis generated by 61 repertory grid interviews carried out in a SME to evaluate whether personal construct theory is a suitable approach to assess the agility status of an organisation. The findings are visualised with a repertory grid software using Generalised Procrustes Analysis (GPA). This methodology creates a 3D visualisation of the agile assessment criteria derived from the interviews. By comparing the spatial distances between construct clusters and elements the researcher and reader able to assess whether an organisation has incorporated agile practices and traits or can further advance to react more agile and flexible to external forces. Repertory grid structured interviews based on PCP generate simultaneously quantitative and qualitative results. As these are compared to the literature-based findings, it reflects a triangulation research approach.

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