Attribution Theory 2. Attribution Theory 1. Personality Theory. Personality Intro. Achievement Motivation. AS PE AMS 11 - Motivation & Drive Reduction Theory. Attribution. Learned Helplessness. NAch & NAF. A2 PE Sp Psych Personality Theory. A2 PE Sp Psych Achievement Motivation. A2 PE Sp Psych Attribution Theory. Psych ARB attribution challenge. London 2012: 'It can be dark and lonely at the top,’ says Victoria Pendleton.
“Being an athlete at the top of your game can be a lonely and dark place,” explains Michael Caulfield, a sports psychologist with The Sporting Edge and former chief executive of the Jockeys Association. “It can be absolutely heartbreaking when something doesn’t go your way – when your body lets you down, for example. All those tears we see on the podiums; that’s when they realise all the sacrifices they’ve put themselves through to get there.” In 2005, Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes revealed that she, like Pendleton, used to self-harm. A year before winning two gold medals in Athens in 2004, Holmes, then 34, repeatedly slashed her body with scissors, leaving scars on her arms and stomach.
She said she was taking out her frustration after a calf injury had left her unable to run. “I made one cut for every day I’d been injured,” she said. It’s easy to dismiss some of these as silly superstitions; but they can conceal deep-rooted vulnerability. Training the Mind of an Olympian. A2 PE PING PONG CHALLENGE. Attribution. Personality.