Originally developed by Butler (1989) with the Great Britain Olympic boxing team, performance profiling is an assessment tool primarily used by sport psychologists to enhance athlete awareness (Butler, 1989,1997; Butler & Hardy, 1992; Butler, Smith, & Irwin, 1993). Through an understanding of selected principles of personal construct theory (Kelly, 1955), Buder and Hardy (1992) developed a client-centered performance assessment technique that asks athletes (either individually or as part of a group) to identify the qualities essential to their performance and then rate themselves on those qualities. The completed profile provides the athlete, the coach, and psychologist with a visual representation of the athlete's perception of his or her performance and hence can be used as a basis to set goals and structure future training interventions.
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