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100 1 Tucci, Anthony
245 10 Flexible Optimism in Golf :|bDoes Modifying Internal,
Global, and Stable Attributions during a Match Improve
Performance?
264 0 |c2019
300 1 online resource (92 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
500 Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-
04, Section: A
500 Advisor: Peterzell, David
502 Thesis (Psy.D.)--John F. Kennedy University, 2019
504 Includes bibliographical references
520 The current study investigated psychological predictors of
golf scores, using both raw scores and those adjusted by
handicap. First, it attempted to replicate previous
reports that explicit endorsement of optimism predicts
golf performance. Second, it attempted to replicate
previous reports that individual differences in
explanatory style predict raw scores, with raw golf scores
negatively correlating with internal, stable, and global
attributions (i.e., implicitly optimistic). Third, it
investigated the hypothesis that lower adjusted scores are
obtained by golfers with more flexible optimism, i.e.,
stronger adjustments throughout the round in self-reported
internality, globality, and stability. Fourth, the study
examined if flexible optimism increases with age, and
fifth, if age and flexible optimism can both account for
variability in golf performance.Fifty adult males
participated while completing an 18-hole golf tournament.
The Life Orientation Test-Revised was used to measure
explicit, generalized optimism. A Likert scale with three
Likert items was used to assess internality, globality,
and stability. At the round's beginning, middle, and end,
each participant reported his raw golf score, and
subjectively rated his overall performance.The study
replicated reports that individual differences in
explanatory style predict raw scores, with lower scores
obtained by golfers with higher ratings of internality and
globality. Explicit optimism (LOT-R) did not correlate
with golf scores. However, explanatory style (i.e.,
implicit optimism, reflecting an internal, stable, global
attributional style), correlated with raw scores, and most
strongly with adjusted scores. Shifts in internality,
stability and globality did not significantly correlate
with golf scores adjusted by handicap, with trends
opposite those predicted by the flexible optimism
hypothesis. Age was uncorrelated with flexible optimism
and did not moderate between flexible optimism and either
raw or adjusted score.This study confirms that explanatory
style predicts golf performance, consistent with
predictions of Positive Psychology. However, it shows that
explicit endorsement of optimism is unrelated to this
result, perhaps highlighting a difference between trait
optimism and confidence at a given moment. Moreover, the
flexible optimism hypothesis was not supported. Future
studies of flexible optimism should disentangle the
potentially beneficial effects of adjusting attributional
style from other (probably detrimental) causes of
attributional instability
533 Electronic reproduction.|bAnn Arbor, Mich. :|cProQuest,
|d2020
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 Clinical psychology
650 4 Recreation
653 Age
653 Flexible optimism
653 Globality
653 Golf
653 Internality
653 Stability
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
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710 2 ProQuest Information and Learning Co
710 2 John F. Kennedy University.|bCollege of Psychology
773 0 |tDissertations Abstracts International|g81-04A
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