Wow!
What a whirl wind it has been completing the literature review. To be honest, I absolutely loved the process. I enjoyed the writing, even though it was the longest paper of my life! I feel like I am more prepared to move forward.
As I progressed through the review, I was able to define my research. I have chosen to assess mindfulness interventions in sport psychology, to determine the best methods of delivery with athletes. This review clearly defined mindfulness, and the potential benefits to athletes. It also focused on the amount of mindfulness training necessary to sustain any potential benefits to mental performance. The research methods were evaluated, and ways to collect data assessed. It became clear that it would be a challenge to measure mindfulness effects on performance directly, but one could create a method to measure mindfulness along with other psychological factors, or measure increases in mindfulness.
It was valuable to review and understand the difference between “Dispositional Mindfulness” and “Mindfulness” with athletes. There is a substantial amount of data, and information regarding mindfulness interventions with athletes of all levels. In the literature, most mindfulness interventions are 5-8 week programs, and include basic mindfulness exercises, which evolve to more complex exercises, with movement, over time.
I am excited to move forward to the next part of the process, it will be amazing to develop a delivery method for the research. The interesting part of the process was determining the need for future research within this topic. It will be fun to work towards the finish line, and add to the research in this field.
There is one validated survey, the Mindfulness Inventory for Sport (MIS). In most cases, the researcher also includes the non-sport specific questionnaires as well. From the review, it seems that the best way to collect data and received follow-up feedback is through mixed methods. This way the participants can share their experiences clearly. The best mindfulness protocol for sport seems to be the MMTS 2.0 (Baltzell & Summers, 2018). I plan to use this protocol to proceed with my project.
Toby Ng
November 15, 2018 — 6:33 pm
Hi Jesse,
Great to hear you are on track with your final project. It seems like you know what you want to do and where you want to go (yes, I’m envious)! I personally don’t know too much about mindfulness, and I wonder if the definition in the literature is different from the one in popular culture. The only reason I ask is that I’m looking at deliberate practice, and though it has been popularized by the “10,000 hour rule”, it actually didn’t come from the scientific literature!
All the best in KIN 596!
Jesse Jakins
November 16, 2018 — 10:36 pm
Thanks Toby!
andrew evans
November 19, 2018 — 3:47 pm
Jesse,
It is great to read your post on what you have learned from the process of writing you literature review. Your summary from this blog post speaks of your confidence and how much you have learned from when we started the program over two years ago.
It is very refreshing to read your joy and I look forward to seeing your work in the New Year!
All my best!
Andy
david hill
March 30, 2019 — 7:15 am
Jesse, thanks for the blog post. It is great to see that Andy and Toby have provided comments. I will need to figure out how to create a community of sharing with other cohorts so that students can get insight into each others work. Glad to hear that the process of writing the literature review was good.