Remediation Strategies for Performance Anxiety across Sex, Sport and Stage: Identifying Common Approaches and a Unified Cognitive Model

David L. Rowland, Gene Moyle and Stewart E. Cooper
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David L. Rowland: Department of Psychology, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA
Gene Moyle: Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
Stewart E. Cooper: Counseling Services, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-24

Abstract: Strategies for addressing anxiety-related decrements in performance have been implemented across a variety of domains, including Sex, Sport, and Stage. In this review, we (1) iterate the dominant anxiety-related remediation strategies within each of these domains; (2) identify over-lapping and domain-specific strategies; and (3) attempt to unify the conceptualization of performance-related anxiety across these three areas under the information-processing framework of the Reflective/deliberative—Impulsive/automatic Model (RIM). Despite both diversity and similarity in remediation approaches across domains, we found that many strategies appear to share the common goal of maintaining a dominant automatic style of information processing in high performance demand situations. We then describe how various remediation strategies might hypothetically fit within the RIM framework and its subcomponents, identifying each intervention as falling into one or more broad categories related to achieving and/or maintaining dominance in automatic information processing. We conclude by affirming the benefit of adopting a unifying information-processing framework for the conceptualization of performance-related anxiety, as a way of both guiding future cross- and inter- disciplinary research and elucidating effective remediation models that share common pathways/mechanisms to improved performance.

Keywords: anxiety; remediation; treatment; performance; sexual performance; stage performance; per-forming arts; sport psychology; performance psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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