Well Being Essay

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Well-being is a combination of physical, mental, emotional and social factors. It is seen, as a stable state of being satisfied with one’s self and their life that doesn’t fluctuate due to a single even, person, or feeling (Begley and Begun, 2000). Well-being consists of eight dimensions, emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual (Begley and Begun, 2000). For the purpose of this study we are going to be looking at the emotional and occupational sides of well-being. Emotional state of well being is the ability to recognize, understand and express a full range of emotions and channel our emotions into healthy behaviours that satisfy our personal and social goals (Ryff, 1985). Occupational is achieving personal satisfaction and enrichment in one’s life through work, education, and personal goals and passions (Ryff, 1985). Visualisation is the most common and effective technique used within mental imagery in sport (Harmison, 2011). To do this you envision yourself executing physical sequences of the sport (Harmison, 2011). It has been shown that visualization helps the athlete to perform at a higher level, through increasing traits of the ‘ideal mentality’. In the process of visualization your must imagine correctly and successfully all aspect of the motion, going through frame-by-frame and using all senses. Studies looking into visualization have shown that mental practice can increase real strength and performance creating an almost virtual iron aspect. This study by ( ) has also proven that visualization activates the same neural circuits that actual seeing does, visual imagery activates the brains visual cortex therefore through the imagining of movement it actives the motor ... ... middle of paper ... ...(by means of visualisation) will lead to an increase in overall well being • Group 1: hypothesize that there will be an increase in overall athletic performance (due to visualisation and evidence techniques), which would result in an increase in their overall well-being • Group 2: hypothesize that there will be an increase in overall athletic performance and well-being. However, this increase will not be as great as that seen in group 1. • Group 3: hypothesize that there will be little or no change to their overall athletic performance and well-being Statistical Analysis • 2x3 Factorial Two Way ANOVA • Between subjects • Dependent: Overall well-being of the participant, Accuracy of Serve • Independent: has three levels consisting of a visualisation instructed and evidence provided group, a visualisation instructed group, and a non-visualisation (control) group

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