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  title info:
    title: Predicting baseball player performance
  name:
    name part: Friend, Harlan Jefferson.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: LeUnes, Arnold
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Ash, Michael J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Bourgeois, A. E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Joe, George W.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Mendoza, Jorge
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1987
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 147 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: This study consisted of establishing a prediction system for baseball players. Psychological measures employed were the Profile of Mood States (POMS), Levenson's multidimensional locus of control (LOC), which was modified for sport, and a motivation measure, called the Sports Motivation Survey (SMS). Ratings of players' physical abilities were made by coaches on such abilities as hitting, pitching, and defensive skills, and were also used as predictors of performance. Results from the sample of 196 players indicate that the anger (POMSA) and tension (POMST) subscales were the two strongest psychological predictors of performance. Using multiple regression, batting skills and the POMSA accounted for about 33% of the variance in runs batted in (RBI) and 11% of the variance in slugging percentage (SLUG%). The LOC and SMS did not quantitatively predict performance; however, feedback from coaches showed that scores on these measures that ranged within one standard deviation above and below the mean were suggestive of consistent play. Morgan's (1974, 1979, 1980) research describing the "Iceberg Profile" appears to have little, if any, predictive relationship to subsequent baseball player performance. Rather, the overall results of this research suggest that certain subscales are somewhat indicative of specific types of performance. Future directions for related studies are discussed.
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Psychology Texas A & M University 1987
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-118).
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
  subject:
    topic: Achievement motivation
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 881024
    record change date: 20200904152406.0
    record identifier: in00000724427
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng