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Title: Resilience in elite level sport


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Resilience in elite level sport
  • Professor Jim McKenna
  • Carnegie Faculty for Sport and Education, Leeds
    Metropolitan University
  • j.mckenna_at_leedsmet.ac.uk

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What we know about motivationmotive-action x
energy
  • People motivate themselves
  • Our energy flows from our strengths and values
  • Talking helps others to tap into our energies
  • Some Talking blocks or drains others energy
  • Organisations succeed or fail, one conversation
    at a time
  • People do NOT respond to reality, onlyto their
    PERCEPTION of reality

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Resilience Links to Broaden and Build theory
of positive emotions (Frederickson 1998, 2001)
  • The label given to bounce-back-ability coping
    and personal growth (bounce-beyond-ability)
  • The process or capacity for successful
    adaptation in conditions normally associated with
    psychological dysfunction and low competence
    (Fonagy et al., 1994)
  • Growth perspective Links to notions of
    capability and competence
  • Transfer of adaptations

Dr. Steve Cobley
John Allan
Nick Wattie
Arabella Ashfield
Jon Finn
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The aim is NOT to make the caterpillar a better
caterpillar.
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but to turn it into a beautiful butterfly
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PYD model of change
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Hardship happens (grit) Resilience (the pearl)
might result
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Resilience results from combining the power of
the positive with the negative
3 1
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Sequences of coping
  • Emotion-focused coping
  • Problem-focused coping (PFC)
  • Moving to PFC is supported by Meaning-focused
    coping

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The ordinary magic of becoming resilientA
socially constructed notion
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Build their resolveSystems must create
realistic, yet challenging, tests
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Perfect is incompleteProblem-free is not prepared
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Learning from Lizzies story
  • Perfect is incomplete (brings entitlement), so
    recruit from groups with adversity in their
    background
  • The severity of adversity you can handle
  • Depends on the qualities of
  • your system
  • your people

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Responding to Adversity
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Resilience
  • More than recovery
  • Only 8-20 exposed convert to PTSD
  • A common (grounded?) experience
  • Many pathways (a process AND an outcome)
  • Hardiness
  • Self-enhancement
  • Repressive coping
  • Positive emotion and laughter

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And it gets more complicated.Problemsfrom
within and beyond sportthey coincidelast for
different (often long) periods
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What makes junior to senior career transitions
difficult?
The development career transition model Wylleman
and Lavallee (2003) See also Finn and McKenna
(2010) IJSSC
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What is RESILIENCE ?
Score (1-10) 1 not very good at this, 10
very good at this ------- I am compassionate
and contribute to society ------- I am
empathetic ------- I am stress hardy ------- I
establish realistic goals and expectations -------
I feel in control of my life ------- I feel
special (not self-centred) and I help others to
feel the same ------- I learn from both success
and failure ------- I live responsibly based on
considered values ------- I use effective
communication and interpersonal skills ------- I
use solid problem-solving and decision-making
skills

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Use powerful aids for balanceRelying on money
undermines personal solidarity
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Some behaviours undermine othersWeapons of self
destruction
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Sport/ Life eventsGrowth opportunities
System
Person
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Building Resilience Links to Super-compensation
in training?
Time
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Options for Building Resilience Growth
Challenge Support.
Time
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Find the bigger meaning
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