Self-Efficacy In Sport

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The sport behaviour which has been chosen is Andy Murray winning Wimbledon in 2013. An appropriate theory for this sport performance is self-efficacy. An article in The Independent by Newman (2013) states that Andy Murray was on a 17 match winning streak on grass leading up to this match and this shows his self-efficacy about his ability to play on grass is growing. Newberry (2013) wrote an article which shows that this sport performance did occur (Appendix A, Figure 1).
Self-efficacy has been defined as ‘‘belief`s in one`s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments’’ (Jenkins, 2008, p 293). There has been research to suggest that sport-confidence is similar to self-efficacy as both take …show more content…
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