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Path analysis examining self-efficacy and decision-making performance on a simulated baseball task.

Teri J Hepler1, Deborah L Feltz

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Self-efficacy significantly predicts decision speed in sports, but not accuracy. Past experience does not meaningfully alter this relationship in athletic decision-making performance.

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Area of Science:

  • Sports Psychology
  • Cognitive Performance
  • Motor Skill Acquisition

Background:

  • Understanding the factors influencing athletic decision-making is crucial for performance optimization.
  • Self-efficacy, or confidence in one's ability, is theorized to play a role in complex cognitive tasks like sports decision-making.
  • The interplay between self-efficacy, performance, and experience requires further investigation in applied sport settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the predictive relationship between decision-making self-efficacy and decision-making performance in a sport-specific context.
  • To determine if self-efficacy influences decision speed and decision accuracy.
  • To examine the moderating effect of past performance or experience on the self-efficacy-performance link.

Main Methods:

  • Seventy-eight undergraduate students completed 10 trials of a baseball decision-making task.
  • Decision-making self-efficacy was assessed prior to each trial.
  • Decision-making performance was quantified by decision speed and decision accuracy.
  • Path analysis was employed to model the relationships between variables.

Main Results:

  • Decision-making self-efficacy significantly predicted decision speed in 8 out of 9 trials.
  • The predictive relationship between self-efficacy and decision accuracy was less consistent (4 out of 9 trials).
  • Past performance or experience did not significantly moderate the relationship between self-efficacy and decision-making performance.

Conclusions:

  • Self-efficacy is a key determinant of decision speed in sport, highlighting the importance of confidence-building interventions.
  • The impact of self-efficacy on decision accuracy is less pronounced, suggesting other factors may be more influential.
  • Athletic experience does not diminish the role of self-efficacy in predicting performance outcomes in decision-making tasks.