Diment, Gregory (2008) Mood, Personality and Swimming Performance in Junior Swimmers. Coursework Masters thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The current project investigated relationships between mood, personality and swimming performance. Junior swimmers (N = 24) participated in the study over four months during the 2002/2003 summer. Athletes completed mood scales within one hour of 4 -10 competitions and personality was assessed away from competition. Mood was assessed using the POMS-A (Terry, Lane, Lane, & Keohane, 1999) which has six subscales (anger, confusion, depression, fatigue, tension, and vigour). Personality was assessed using the J-EPQ (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1986) which has three subscales (extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism). Performance was measured with reference to participant’s personal-best and goal time for individual events. In Phase 1, congruent with existing literature, results showed no consistent relationships between mood and personality. However, extraversion was found to be related to the variability of depressed mood, and psychoticism was related to vigour variability. In Phase 2, nomothetic analysis showed that personality predicted 23% of the variance in performance variability. Analyses showed no consistent relationships between mood variability and performance, although vigour variability was positively correlated with performance variability. No evidence was found for mood mediating the effect of personality on performance variability. In line with existing literature, idiographic analyses showed strong evidence for the highly individualised nature of mood-performance relationships. Specifically, the variance in performance accounted for by mood responses ranged from 0.81% to 86% across individual swimmers. Results are discussed in terms of existing literature and theoretical models of mood performance relationships. Applications for sport psychology practitioners, such as mood regulation interventions and individualised strategies, are also discussed.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Coursework Masters) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Peter Terry |
| Qualification: | Doctor of Psychology (Sport &Exercise) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2025 23:18 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2025 23:18 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52271 |
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