Psychological Safety in High-Performance Sport: Contextually Applicable?

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Michael Ashford¹  Dave Collins³  Jamie Taylor³ 

[1] Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom;Grey Matters Performance Limited, Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom;Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;School of Health and Human Performance, Faculty of Science and Health, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland;

关键词: criticality;    pragmatism;    sport psychology;    elite sport;    talent development;    high performance milieu;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fspor.2022.823488

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, high-performance sport has seen a rising interest in Psychological Safety, a construct with a strong empirical basis in certain business contexts. As research and practice interest grows in PS, there are early indications of practitioners and, to a lesser extent research, treating the construct as being universally transferable. We offer three central concerns with this situation. Firstly, it seems that a variety of different interpretations in use may limit the practical application of the construct. Secondly, a concern that not all dimensions of PS are transferable or applicable in the HPSs context, especially for athletes. Finally, emerging evidence from outside of sport suggests potential downsides to the perceptions of PS in a performance/selection sets. We suggest that, as with all theories and constructs, there is a pressing need for nuance and context-specific evidence in how researchers and practitioners approach transferability plus, perhaps, a little more understanding of the real-world high-performance context.

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