Performance development of adolescent swimmers : a Mindfulness - Acceptance - Commitment (MAC) approach
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: For the past three decades performance development in sport has been steered by \ntraditional Psychological Skills Training (PST) programmes. However, in the last \ndecade, the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach to \nperformance development in sport has been introduced. To date, there is limited \nresearch on the MAC approach and there are currently no published studies in \nSouth Africa. The goal of this study was to explore the participant’s experiences of \nthe MAC programme with reference to what they learnt through the programme, \nhow they applied their learning to their swimming and how they transferred their \nlearning to their lives. This study is an Interpretive Phenomenological view of five \nadolescent swimmers (two female and three male) at the High Performance Centre \n(hpc), in South Africa (SA). The participants partook in a one-day swimmingspecific \nMAC programme and thereafter, semi-structured interviews were \nconducted with the participants. An interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) \nwas used for analysing the data gained from the interviews. The findings indicate \nthat the participants had experiences which were consistent, inconsistent or unique \nin relation to the literature review.
Author: Lauren Margaret Leon
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W596584825