Read Olmedilla, et al. (2019) (available on iCollege as a PDF) and answer the following questions. Upload your answers in a Word document to the assignment "Article Review #2" in iCollege.

General Questions (9pts):

In which journal is this paper published (3pts)

What is the topic of this paper? (3pts)

Why do you think the authors chose youth soccer players and not adults? (3pts)

Introduction (24pts):

What are 2 psychological variables previously proposed to have an impact on sport performance?

What is a proposed negative impact of stress on sports performance? What is a proposed positive impact of stress on sports performance?

The fact that the author's list both positive and negative impacts of stress on sports tells us something about the way they view and define "stress". What does it tell us?

How do the author's define "coping"? How many citations do they use to define coping?

What are the 2 major styles of coping?

What is the purpose of this paper?

Method (21pts):

Describe the study participants.

What is the name of the measure they used to assess psychological variables? How many subscales does it have?

This study doesn't have a manipulated independent variable per se, but they do measure the same participants in before and after the introduction of an intervention program. Thus, "time" can be thought of as the IV. Thus, is this experiment a "concurrent-measures" or a "longitudinal" design?

What is the DV and how is it operationalized?

Is this a between-subjects or within-subjects design?

How many sessions of the psychological training program did each subject receive?

What type of therapy serves as the basis for the training program?

Results (22pts):

What are the two sub-scales (factors) that changed significantly over the course of the program?

What was the one sub-scale (factor) that changed "marginally significantly"?

Discussion (24pts):

What should we conclude about the impact of the psychological training program?

What might be some reasons that only some of the sub-scales showed change over time? In other words, what was special or different about the sub-scales that did or did not show change?

What are the two major limitations of this study and how can it be improved in the future?

What are practical applications of this research in the real-world?