ABSTRACT
A well-established area of sport psychology has built research on the role of self-efficacy in successful sports participation. Initially proposed by Bandura (1997), self-efficacy refers to the belief than an individual has in his or her the ability to execute a task to generate a specific outcome. This belief of having some amount of control over one’s own functioning has been described to have a pervasive influence in an individual’s task performance. Studies of the self-efficacy construct in sport have included physical proficiency and different aspects of game performance such as strategy selection, prediction of opponent’s actions, and pressure management (Short and Ross-Stewart 2009).
