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Revista Brasileira de Psicologia do Esporte

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LAVOURA, Tiago Nicola  and  MACHADO, Afonso Antonio. An investigation of fear in sport contexts: the needs of psychology training. Rev. bras. psicol. esporte [online]. 2008, vol.2, n.1, pp.01-28. ISSN 1981-9145.

By doing a qualitative research, using the technique of life history and analysis of thematic content, this paper's objective was to investigate the situations or events that might bring to life the feeling of fear in athletes, how they know such feeling in the sporting context, and how to deal with it so that it doesn't harm him or interfere in the sporting performance. Ten athletes of mountain bike and canoeing participated of this study. This way, we notice that fear is an emotion that is constantly present in the sporting context, receiving different representations and interpretations from society, as well as the great variety and complexity of the emotional states during sports practice, and it's understood that, the greatest the demand and the level of performance needed by athletes, the greatest are the dynamics of these affective states and their influence on athletes performance.

Keywords : Fear in sport; History of life; Sport performance.

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