Psychological Stressors influencing Athletes’ Performance

APA Style article assignment: Psychological Stressors Influencing Athletes’ Performance

Please use the following the outline:

Introduction

• What exactly do you want to study?
• Purpose of study
• Objectives/hypotheses/research questions
• Explains why the research will be undertaken and what it aims to discover.
• Why is study important and necessary?
  • What specific literature supports the need for more research on your topic?
  • You need three different literature sources.
• Does the proposed study have practical significance?
  • Explain the practical significance of this research.
  • How can this research be used in a real world setting?
• What theory are you using to support your research? (here or literature review)
  • What theories/conceptual models address topic and what do they say?
  • Why are you using the theory you selected instead of another?
  • Does proposed study contribute to previous theories or conceptual models?

    Review of Literature

• Provide detail explanation of the specific concepts related to your topic(s).
  • Use specific literature when providing explanation.
  • What are the important factors/concepts?
  • How do you know these are important?
• Discuss previous studies conducted on your topic
  • What previous research on topic exists?
  • What have others said about this topic?
  • Why did they research topic?
  • What did they find?
  • How did these authors research topic?
  • What population was used and why?
  • Did authors suggest need for further research?
  • What did authors conclude?
  • You should have several studies that conducted research on your topic or a similar topic/research using a measurement tool to analyze topic

    Find the relationship between Performance and Stress

• What measurement techniques have been used to study your topic?
  • Why did you select the measurement technique you are using to study your topic?
  • Strengths and weaknesses of your technique
• Restate the purpose of your study and research question(s).
  • Identify how your study is filling gap in existing literature.

    References
    

• Type of resources and relevance (e.g., peer-reviewed journals, books, etc)
• Minimum of 25 references
• APA