Welcome to the Young Player Wellbeing Podcast - developed by Care Visions alongside the University of Stirling. Your hosts, Brad and Toni, are dedicated to providing insightful discussions, expert advice and practical strategies that promote wellbeing as well as cutting edge tips for developing performance. We want to equip young athletes with the appropriate skills to have control over their own wellbeing, both in and out of sport. We do this by speaking to highly specialised guests about the importance of wellbeing and sport psychology through their own knowledge and experience.
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Welcome to the Young Player Wellbeing Podcast - developed by Care Visions alongside the University of Stirling. Your hosts, Brad and Toni, are dedicated to providing insightful discussions, expert advice and practical strategies that promote wellbeing as well as cutting edge tips for developing performance. We want to equip young athletes with the appropriate skills to have control over their own wellbeing, both in and out of sport. We do this by speaking to highly specialised guests about the importance of wellbeing and sport psychology through their own knowledge and experience.
S3 E07 The Weight of Expectation with Dr Helen Heaviside
The Young Player Wellbeing Podcast
48 minutes 2 seconds
1 year ago
S3 E07 The Weight of Expectation with Dr Helen Heaviside
Our latest episode, recorded in the Leeds Trinity University podcast studio, is with one of their senior lecturers in sport psychology and published researcher in the field, Dr Helen Heaviside.
Helen's research focuses on interpersonal expectancies and impression management. Brad and Toni had absolutely 0 idea about until recording this episode. This episode serves as a major learning experience for as both and forced us to reflect on how expectations affect others and the best ways to manage these expectations.
Here's our brief, spoiler free overview on interpersonal expectancies and impression management (sorry in advance, Helen).
Interpersonal expectancies are the expectations we, as human beings, have of other people. This concept is particularly interesting in the sport context. Think about the expectations placed on athletes; from fans, media, coaches, teammates, officials. It's a lot, and therefore can have both negative outcomes for wellbeing and performance, if not managed appropriately.
Expectancies affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. If we latch on to an expectancy that places unhelpful pressure on us, we might begin to feel stress. When we're stressed our wellbeing might be low, which can negatively impact our performance. That's where impression management comes in, which is all about how to manage the impression (or expectancy) that we are creating of other people and that others create about us. We spend the last part of the episode discussing 'controlling the controllables' to assist with managing impressions.
Tune in as we explore interpersonal expectancies and impression management, 2 concepts which might be a bit closer to home than you first thought...
Talking Points
1. Intro and welcome to episode (00:00)
2. Expectancies (7:51)
3. Self - fulfilling prophecy (15:30)
4. Consequences of interpersonal expectancies (20:07)
5. Impression management (26:09)
6. Strategies to manage expectations (35:54)
7. Closing thoughts (46:57)
Follow / Connect with Helen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenheavisidesportpsychology/
and Twitter: https://x.com/helen8590brown?lang=en-GB
Follow Leeds Trinity's Sport Psych page on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ltusportpsych?igsh=Y3Vtcm0zZ3R6dG8%3D
and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ltu-sport-psychology/
The Young Player Wellbeing Podcast
Welcome to the Young Player Wellbeing Podcast - developed by Care Visions alongside the University of Stirling. Your hosts, Brad and Toni, are dedicated to providing insightful discussions, expert advice and practical strategies that promote wellbeing as well as cutting edge tips for developing performance. We want to equip young athletes with the appropriate skills to have control over their own wellbeing, both in and out of sport. We do this by speaking to highly specialised guests about the importance of wellbeing and sport psychology through their own knowledge and experience.
