social facilitation

social facilitation

positive influence of others on sports performance

social inhibition

negative influence of others which leads to decreased performance in sport

evaluation apprehension

feeling of being evaluated that leads to increased arousal

home Vs away

teams often win more games at home

personality factors

extroverts perform better with audience, introverts don’t

levels of experience

elite more likely to perform better with an audience

types of skill

simple/gross = high arousal, complex/fine = low arousal

other influences

nature of audience, physical proximity of audience