A Penny for your Thoughts : Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue during Consultations

Tod, David and McEwan, Hayley and Whitehead, Amy and Marchant, Daryl (2024) A Penny for your Thoughts : Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue during Consultations. The Sport Psychologist, 38 (1). pp. 70-78. ISSN 1543-2793

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the internal dialogue of trainee sport psychologists (TSPs) and athletes immediately following athlete–practitioner consultations. TSPs (four male and three female, age 22–32 years) and athletes (four male, three female, age 19–29 years) completed a thought-listing procedure twice, while watching video recordings of their previous consultations. The thought-listing procedure involved participants’ pausing the video to record the in-session internal dialogue they had experienced during the consultation. Participants’ responses were categorized into six dimensions: time, place, focus, locus, orientation, and mode. TSPs’ and athletes’ retrospective accounts provided evidence that their in-session internal dialogue was (a) present focused, (b) about in-session material, (c) about the athletes or themselves, (d) about internal and external events, (e) professional (i.e., related to the session), and (f) neutral. Findings provide trainees and inexperienced practitioners with insights into the thought content of TSPs and athletes to guide their own athlete interactions.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
The Sport Psychologist
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211883
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Deposited On:
20 Dec 2023 16:20
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Yes
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01 Oct 2024 00:53