| Abstract: | This paper critically reviews self-presentational behavior, cognition, and affect in competition and sport. It is subdivided into three main sections. The first section focuses on self-handicapping behavior, describing what it is and why it occurs. Self-handicapping research is reviewed followed by suggestions for future study. In section two, cognitions related to stereotypes about individuals who play certain sports are discussed. The third and final section examines demographic, environmental, and physical self-perception correlates of social physique anxiety as well as the tenability of Leary's (1992) Leary, M. R. 1992. Self-presentation processes in exercise and sport. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 14: 339–351. [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] conceptualization of competitive anxiety. |
