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Clinics in Sports Medicine Jan 2024Athletes and non-athletes experience many anxiety-related symptoms and disorders at comparable rates. Contributory factors may include pressure to perform, public... (Review)
Review
Athletes and non-athletes experience many anxiety-related symptoms and disorders at comparable rates. Contributory factors may include pressure to perform, public scrutiny, sporting career dissatisfaction, injury, and harassment and abuse in sport. Anxiety may negatively impact sport performance. Specific types of anxiety may have unique presentations in athletes. It is important to rule out general medical and substance-related causes of anxiety symptoms. Psychotherapy and pharmacology treatment options should be considered, bearing in mind athletes' environmental circumstances and physiologies.
Topics: Humans; Athletes; Anxiety Disorders; Sports; Anxiety; Psychotherapy
PubMed: 37949513
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2023.06.002 -
Frontiers in Psychology 2023
PubMed: 38094704
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1328762 -
Frontiers in Psychology 2019Anxiety has long been associated with diminished performance within a number of domains involving evaluative interpersonal interactions, including Sex, Sport, and Stage.... (Review)
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Anxiety has long been associated with diminished performance within a number of domains involving evaluative interpersonal interactions, including Sex, Sport, and Stage. Here, we pose three questions: (1) how do these disparate fields approach and understand anxiety and performance; (2) how does the understanding of the issue within one field offer insight to another field; and (3) how could each field benefit from the ideas and strategies used by the others. We begin with a short review of models of anxiety/arousal and performance and then explore definitions, models, presumed underlying physiological processes, and characterizing and influencing factors within each domain separately in a narrative review. This discussion is followed by a synthesis that identifies elements specific to and common across the various domains, with the latter captured in a model of essential characteristics. Concluding remarks note the potential value of promoting increased cross-disciplinary conversation and research, with each domain likely benefiting from the conceptualizations and expert knowledge of the others.
PubMed: 31379665
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01615 -
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland) Aug 2023Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a natural, emotional, and physiological response to the stress of public performance. Debilitating forms of MPA are severe and... (Review)
Review
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a natural, emotional, and physiological response to the stress of public performance. Debilitating forms of MPA are severe and persistent reactions that go beyond the normal adaptive response to music evaluation situations and can negatively impact the quality of musical performance and the musician's life in general. Today, it affects numerous professional performers and can result in an inability to practice their profession, posing a significant threat to their professional activity. Despite its scope, studies exploring this issue and contributing to its resolution are scarce. Thus, this review aims to compile the significant advancements made in the last five years (2018-2023) in the treatment of MPA from a scientific perspective. For this purpose, the PRISMA method was used based on the results obtained from the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. Reviewed are 10 studies that have made valuable contributions to this matter in this time frame after applying the quality filters using the PRISMA method. It is concluded that, although there are methodological shortcomings and sample limitations in the current research, this field registers advancements that provide valuable information to prevent or solve this problem in professional or aspiring musicians.
PubMed: 37753998
DOI: 10.3390/bs13090720 -
Journal of the American College of... Nov 2023Performance anxiety is fear, anxiety, or avoidance of performative tasks, due to possible evaluation or criticism by others. Performance anxiety is well described in...
Performance anxiety is fear, anxiety, or avoidance of performative tasks, due to possible evaluation or criticism by others. Performance anxiety is well described in public speakers, musicians, and even surgeons. Its impact on radiologists and especially radiology trainees has not been explored. This article details performance anxiety, framing radiologists as performers, and highlights its potential impact on trainees and practicing radiologists. We offer strategies to manage and enhance the effects of performance anxiety that can be implemented in a training environment.
Topics: Humans; Radiology; Radiologists; Internship and Residency; Performance Anxiety; Anxiety
PubMed: 37634799
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.06.038 -
Frontiers in Psychology 2023Research on Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among amateur musicians is of great interest due to inconsistent results in literature. In addition, amateur music represents...
INTRODUCTION
Research on Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among amateur musicians is of great interest due to inconsistent results in literature. In addition, amateur music represents an important part of musical culture in Germany. Accordingly, the performance experiences of young wind players represent a relevant issue for research and musical practice.
METHODS
In the present study, 67 young amateur musicians of a brass choir were examined. Using two different questionnaires, both the dispositional MPA (K-MPAI) and the performance-specific MPA during a joint concert (Performance-specific Questionnaire for Musicians, PQM) were assessed. The PQM measures the symptoms of MPA, functional coping with MPA and self-efficacy before, during and after a specific performance. The PQM was completed by the musicians an app directly after the concert.
RESULTS
Results showed that about 90% of the young amateur musicians had a low dispositional MPA, but about 10% showed high values. For the concrete performance, however, musicians with high dispositional MPA also experienced a very moderate to low MPA in the concert. On average, the musicians were quite nervous before the performance. After the performance, they showed low levels of MPA. Three types of MPA found in previous studies could be confirmed among the amateur musicians, with three quarters being assigned to the positive type, showing low levels of symptoms associated with consistently high levels of self-efficacy and positive functional coping.
DISCUSSION
The results provide a differentiated picture of different expressions of MPA in young amateur musicians. They also raise further questions about the correlation between dispositional and performance-specific assessment of MPA in musicians in general.
PubMed: 37583605
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1208311 -
Annals of Surgery Apr 2022
Topics: Cross-Sectional Studies; Humans; Performance Anxiety; SARS-CoV-2; Surgeons; United Kingdom
PubMed: 35081563
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005399 -
Simulation in Healthcare : Journal of... Apr 2022Anxiety experienced by students participating in simulations may impede their learning and performance. The added anxiety brought about by the socioevaluative nature of...
INTRODUCTION
Anxiety experienced by students participating in simulations may impede their learning and performance. The added anxiety brought about by the socioevaluative nature of simulation assessments may accentuate this effect. This study aimed to assess the relationship between anxiety experienced by emergency care students and performance in an authentic prehospital emergency care simulation assessment.
METHODS
The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was completed before and after a simulation assessment by 58 emergency care students across all academic years of study of a 4-year degree program in prehospital emergency care. The state anxiety component of the STAI was plotted together with marks obtained by each student using a standardized assessment tool, and curve estimation was used to determine the nature of the relationship between state anxiety scores and marks.
RESULTS
Mean preassessment STAI scores were lower than mean postassessment scores (48.74 vs. 57.74), but mean scores from both groups were greater than normal mean scores for college students. The relationship of both preassessment and postassessment STAI scores with assessment marks was best described by a quadratic curve suggesting that performance was better at both the lower and higher ends of the range of STAI scores compared with the middle. Postassessment STAI scores provided a better fit with simulation assessment marks.
CONCLUSIONS
This study did not confirm the expected decrease in performance associated with increasing anxiety but rather suggests that some students may have the ability to respond positively to the highest levels of anxiety during simulation assessments.
Topics: Anxiety; Emergency Medical Services; Humans; Students
PubMed: 34608105
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000612 -
PloS One 2023The purpose of the present study was to determine the perception of schoolchildren whether their academic performance improved or worsened during the pandemic, analyzing...
The purpose of the present study was to determine the perception of schoolchildren whether their academic performance improved or worsened during the pandemic, analyzing their social anxiety, gender, use of masks in the classroom, and school year. The total sample was 107 primary school students (25 in the fourth, 40 in the fifth and 42 in the sixth grade), with a mean age of 10.51 years old (SD = 1). The gender were 58 girls and 49 boys, from a school in the province of La Coruña (Spain). The study was based on a quantitative methodology, and the design was cross-sectional, descriptive, observational and correlational. The social anxiety questionnaire (CASO-N24) was used to assess social anxiety, and an ad hoc self-report register was elaborated to evaluate sociodemographic variables. The results indicated that 44.8% of the schoolchildren considered that the pandemic had neither improved nor worsened their academic performance. Although 38.3% considered that high and very high social anxiety increased progressively as the school year progressed, both in boys and girls. Besides, the schoolchildren who presented very low and low social anxiety improved their grades in Physical Education, while those who presented high social anxiety worsened them. In conclusion, having a low social anxiety, lower grades before the pandemic and higher grades after, makes children perceive an improvement in their academic performance during the pandemic.
Topics: Male; Child; Female; Humans; Cross-Sectional Studies; COVID-19; Academic Performance; Fear; Anxiety
PubMed: 36634072
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280194 -
Annals of the New York Academy of... Aug 2022Studies have found math anxiety and achievement to be related from the beginning of formal schooling, but the knowledge regarding the direction of the relationship is...
Studies have found math anxiety and achievement to be related from the beginning of formal schooling, but the knowledge regarding the direction of the relationship is vague. The purpose of the present study was to study this relationship. We investigated math anxiety from two points of view: trait and state anxiety. In the first substudy, we investigated the longitudinal relationship between math anxiety and performance from sixth to seventh grade (n = 848) with cross-lagged modeling. In the second substudy, we investigated the situational relationship of anxiety and performance by giving the participants (n = 149) challenging and nonchallenging math tasks adapted to their skill level, and then examining the association between anxiety and the performance. The results suggest that math anxiety has a small longitudinal effect on performance: High anxiety in sixth grade predicted low performance in seventh grade. Anxiety also had a situational association with performance: when anxiety was aroused, the participants performed more poorly compared to their skill level. The results adduce the two-fold effect of anxiety on achievement: math anxiety seems to have both a real-time association with performance and a long-term effect on the development of basic arithmetic skills.
Topics: Achievement; Adolescent; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Humans; Knowledge; Mathematics
PubMed: 35579927
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14788