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Sports Studies

West Virginia University

2020

Collegiate Baseball

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Exploring The Relationship Between Hardiness And Performance In Collegiate Baseball Players, Kevin R. Lou Jan 2020

Exploring The Relationship Between Hardiness And Performance In Collegiate Baseball Players, Kevin R. Lou

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The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of the individual personality characteristic of hardiness on trait anxiety and objective performance within NCAA Division I collegiate baseball players. An updated version of the PVS III-R was used to measure hardiness after a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted. Of the total 389 players that participated, 171 met inclusion criteria requirements and were split into two groups – hitters (N=94) and pitchers (N=80) – to identify differences in skills and how sub-constructs of hardiness affected performance through a descriptive correlational prospective design. The results show …