Louis Ross
Aspiring Sport Psychologist currently completing an OU module before starting BASES SEPAR in 2020. Studied in America, took and took a year out to coach football before returning to Bristol to do my MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology from UWE. Particularly interested in athlete/team confidence as well the coach's role in creating a motivational climate
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According to Nicholls’ (1984) individuals are either task-involved; meaning they are concerned with their own personal improvement and they seek skill mastery, or ego-involved, in which they judge their own success in comparison to others. Existing literature (see Cury, Biddle, Sarrazin, & Famose,1997; Van-Yperen & Duda,1999) shows that there is...
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I saw a picture doing the rounds on Twitter this week of a U15 match for Ajax vs. Sparta Rotterdam where one boy looks almost fully developed and the other boy doesn’t. It got me thinking about the Relative Age Effect (RAE), this is the phenomenon that sees children born...
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Forget ability, is personality a new way to gauge if someone is going to be successful in the future? The answer is fairly complex, but in short: an athlete’s future success won’t solely be predicted because of certain parts of their personality, but it may well give us a better...