title: Sources of sport confidence, imagery type and performance among competitive athletes: the mediating role of sports confidence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study explored the mediating role of sport confidence upon (1) sources of sport confidence-performance relationship and (2) imagery-performance relationship.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 157 competitive athletes who completed state measures of confidence level/sources, imagery type and performance within one hour after competition.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the current sample, confirmatory factor analysis revealed appropriate support for the nine-factor SSCQ and the five-factor SIQ. Mediational analysis revealed that sport confidence had a mediating influence upon the achievement source of confidence-performance relationship. In addition, both cognitive and motivational imagery types were found to be important sources of confidence, as sport confidence mediated imagery type- performance relationship.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings indicated that athletes who construed confidence from their own achievements and report multiple images on a more frequent basis are likely to benefit from enhanced levels of state sport confidence and subsequent performance.
authors: Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK - Andy.Levy@edgehill.ac.uk.
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Levy
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Perry
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Nicholls
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Larkin
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Davies
mesh_terms: D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D054874:Athletic Performance / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult