1. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Teenagers Questionnaire TranSPORTing Emotions Comenius Project 2009 - 2010

2. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Why a survey It was necessary to find out the habits of our students regarding their… HappinessHealth Emotions Sport activities

3. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 for highlighting the Emotion Regulation in Sport

4. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 We experienced that… Emotions play a central role in sport performance. Sport is an emotional experience for many athletes.

5. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 What is emotion? Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary: “A feeling (as opposed to thoughts), such as happiness, love, fear, anger, which can be caused by the situation that you are in or the people you are with”.

6. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 “[…] a reaction to a stimulus event (either actual or imagined). It involves changes in the viscera and musculature of the person, is experienced subjectively in characteristics ways, is expressed through such means as facial changes and actions tendencies, and may mediate and energize subsequent behaviours”.

7. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Origin of emotions in sport performance Emotion has a response: Some examples: I feel happy because I score a point. I feel disappointed when I miss/lose a point. I feel despair when I lose a match. I feel scared because my opponent is powerful.

8. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Characteristics of the emotional response 3 elements Physiological changes Muscle tension Skin response Blood pressure Heart rate

9. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Subjective experience angry happiness fearsadness

10. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Action tendencies fear run away sadness become motionless

11. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 How does emotion affect sport performance? On motivation Because optimal emotions can initiate and mantain the required amount of effort for a task and it’s a positive predictor of objective competitive results.

12. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Can anger be beneficial to sport performance? On physical functioning, accuracy may be reduced On cognitive functioning, impair working memory, narrowing attentional focus and reducing cognitive resources available for the task.

13. Milena Lato - Istituto Tecnico Plateja - Taranto - ITALY 2010 Questionnaire results ITALY POLAND PORTUGAL UK Edmonton College UK Enfield College