Performance Profiling Essay

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Performance profiling (Butler & Hardy as cited by Butler, Smith & Irwin 1993) is an assessment tool that enables sport psychologists to discover an athlete’s perceived weakness. In a classroom setting, we set out to experiment whether music can alter a person’s mood and therefore alter their perceptions. Our specific aim was to find if a change of mood could affect students’ perception of their abilities and particular qualities as chosen by themselves. It was found that before the music was played, precondition, there was no noteworthy differences between the happy music group and the sad music group. After listening to the happy music it was found that the students in this group showed significantly higher positive moods whilst the group …show more content…
To generalise these findings to other populations would not work, as there are too many other effectors that may have influenced the results such as, even though the participants were widely distributed, that is being from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, they are still only students. The participants are also taking the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity unit at ACU. Therefore, it is likely that most participants are interested in either psychology or sport and physical activity. There is a large amount of the larger population that may not be interested in either aspects and when tested may have completely different results. It may be interesting, however to compare these results with the results of athletes to find whether music can influence their mood and their playing abilities. We already see many people listening to music whilst exercising, hence finding out why, may be worth looking into as further research. In 2000, there was a study completed by four Japanese authors that evaluated the effect of music on the mood of women during bench stepping exercises (Hayakawa, Miki, Takada & Tanaka, 2000). These authors tested 16 women whilst performing the bench stepping exercise to either Japanese folk songs, aerobic dance music or no music. It was found that aerobic dance music was associated with a positive mood state as well as a
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