7. What are the circumstances that can undermine a player’s composure?
Composure has to do with how a player uses their emotions to remain poised and focused, not only on or off the field. A player is likely to lose their composure when they are faced with the following kinds of circumstances:
• They have not prepared for game competition and, thus, when their
performance is not proceeding as expected. With lack of or limited
preparation, the player can get frustrated and even angry, sometimes with
other people, such as teammates.
• They are paying attention to outcomes and their personal performance
statistics.
• They are overly-concerned about what other people, especially people over
which they have not control (e.g., media) have to say about them.
• When they do not think about the consequences of their actions such as not
considering the off the field places which they frequent or attend.
• When they associate with people who could have a negative or damaging
influence on them
• If they use substances that are either banned or that can place the player at
personal risk---such as alcohol, drugs of abuse, and performing enhancing
substances.
• If they do not have a plan for managing their emotions such as the methods
that I have discussed in previous questions above.
8. What can a teammate do if that teammate sees another player lose control of their emotions?
This will depend largely on the teammate and their prior relationship with the player in question. The teammate who observes a player who has lost control of their emotions can do a number of things.
However, what the player does should depend on their relationship with the player.
Here are some things that can be helpful:
1.
clubhouse after the game or the next day
2.
team.
3.
the moment, the teammate could step between the player and the
situation or even pull the player away from the situation as dictated by the
immediacy of the situation.
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