What causes stress BTEC Level 3 in Sport

What causes stress? BTEC Level 3 in Sport

Objectives By the end of this lesson you need to know: • The causes of stress • Be able to provide examples of different causes of stress

Internal Occupational Factors Causes of stress Personal Factors External

Sports Environments The impact of stress is derived from two key aspects: • Importance of the event – The importance of the event is specific to you and your previous achievements • E. g first game back after injury cold be more stressful than the final of NBA play-offs • Amount of uncertainty

Internal Causes of Stress Internal causes of stress include: • Illnesses and injuries • Psychological factors such as past memories • Not enough sleep • Being overly critical or being a perfectionist (type A personality) • Our feelings of self-worth

External Causes of Stress • External causes of stress include: • The environment in which you find yourself – Competition – Training – Weather • Social interactions with other people – Someone being rude to you – clashes in personality – Crowd interaction • • Major life events Death in family Day to day hassles Travel to and from games, training schedules

Personal Factors Personal factors are: • the people we share our lives with such as – Friends – Family • Life factors such as: – Money – Health

Occupational Factors These are any job related such as: • Job satisfaction • Under pressure to perform at work • Disagreement with manager • Working conditions This is obviously very influential when talking about sports performance http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Ap. Wk. Nuz 5 Zbo &feature=related

Effects of stress on performance Stage 1: Demand Stage 2: Perception of demand Stage 3: Increased arousal levels Stage 4: Increased arousal levels e. g. Last penalty in shoot-out Positive perception (challenge) Negative perception (threat) Eustress (increased energy and motivation) Distress (Increased worry and anxiety) Increased performance Reduced performance

Task For the following scenario produce an applied stress process diagram that illustrates how stress can influence performance, both positively and negatively. Amir is paying snooker in a local tournament and has reached a break of 140 so far. He has never got this far before on a break and he is only one shot away from his first ever maximum 147 break.