ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
Making Champs and Super-Champs-Current Views, Contradictions, and Future Directions.
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- Does the Relative Age Effect Influence Short-Term Performance and Sport Career in Team Sports? A Qualitative Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Bouncing back: a longitudinal examination of challenge within football academy environments.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- The relative age effect among Chinese junior men's tennis players and its impact on sports performance.PloS one · 2023Article
- Blank canvas or under construction? Examining the pre-academy experiences of young developing professional team sports athletes.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Low prevalence of relative age effects in Luxembourg's male and female youth football.PloS one · 2022Article
- The Influence of Contextual Aspects in Talent Development: Interaction Between Relative Age and Birthplace Effects in NBA-Drafted Players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Validation of a French Version of the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence Questionnaire (MacNamara & Collins, ): A Situated Approach to Talent Development.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
In our 2016 paper (Collins et al., 2016a), we proposed that superchamps (athletes who have achieved the highest level in their sport) were differentiated from their less successful counterparts by their use of positive proactive coping and a "learn from it" approach to challenge. This skill-based focus to talent development (TD) is supported extensively in the literature (e.g., MacNamara et al., 2010a,b) and suggests that the differences between levels of adult achievement relate more to what performers
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