Color association method in sport

2^nd International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness

April 18-20, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Marijana Mladenovic and Nenad Trunic

Singidunum University, Serbia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Sports Med Doping Stud

Abstract :

Some latest research in neuroscience indicate that cognitive self-control is over rated and that sports person might over-estimate conscious capacity to control behavior in sports setting. On the other hand, in psychological assessment, the most often instruction in questionnaires is that subject should choose answer that first comes up to his/her mind and there is always a possibility that association, or â�?�?what first comes up in mindâ�?�?, can then be rationally corrected guided by oneâ�?�?s previous experience or expectation of outcomes. In contrast, â�?�?uncensoredâ�? authentic associations provide a very different, deeper and more comprehensive view. Color Association Method deals with measuring and evaluating these â�?�?authentic uncensored associationsâ�?. Like L�?¼scherâ�?�?s color test, it is based on palette of eight colors, but combined with words. Association between certain word related to sport setting and color, might provide insight non-conscious subjective psychological state of a sportsperson. In sport psychology, it is possible to use CAM in order to obtain individual sportsman profile, profile of a team and to access resilience and psychological energy for competition. CAM claims to explore mental resilience during the competition by measuring subjective sense of pain, effort, fear, injury, readiness for competition and training, ability to take a risk during the match, relying on habits in sports context. Results on CAM vary from zero to one hundred. CAM is currently in process of validation in area of sports psychology.

Biography :

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