APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
When the Wall Hits: Mental Contrasting Heightens Flow and Performance in Marathon Runners
- Birte Thissen
NYU - Silke Lippok
University of Hamburg - Oliver Stoll
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg - Gabriele Oettingen
New York University
Abstract
In an online experiment N = 43 marathon runners were randomly assigned to an information control or a self-regulation intervention group. A positive intervention effect was found for overall performance and for flow during the final part of the race, with the latter effect being fully mediated by challenge perception.
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