A mindfulness programme improves some of an archer's mental skills, but not all

A mindfulness programme improves some of an archer's mental skills, but not all · What changed https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-mental-skills Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb Claim page revised, version 3https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-mental-skillsWhat evidence there is points the way the claim does, but it rests on two small groups and on questionnaires filled in by the people who did the programme. In the study published in 2020, eleven archers from the Turkish national recurve squad did eight weeks of mindfulness, one ninety-minute session a week during the training camp for Rio 2016: of the twelve skills on the questionnaire, four improved, namely relaxation, activation, competition planning and refocusing (the last from 13.1 to 15.9 points, p = 0.024), while self-confidence, goal setting, fear control, focusing, imagery, commitment, stress reactions and mental practice stayed where they were. In 2024, in Hong Kong, twelve archers who followed a twelve-week mindfulness programme reported much more self-confidence, from 19.5 to 27 points, and much less anxiety, both cognitive and somatic. Self-confidence, then, does not move in the first group and rises sharply in the second, and neither study gave the same questionnaires to a control group. What can be said is that something changes, and that what changes depends on the programme and the group. Behind the averages some archers get worse: in the Turkish group, on three of the four skills that rose, two archers out of eleven went down. Before these two studies there was only a one-year follow-up of an American programme on archers, golfers and runners together, with the same pattern, fewer task-irrelevant thoughts during competition and sport confidence unchanged, but with four archers not separated from the other sports.claim:mindfulness-abilita-mentali:revision:2026-03-05:3Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT "A mindfulness programme improves some of an archer's mental skills, but not all" added to the registry as Reportedhttps://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/mindfulness-mental-skillsclaim:mindfulness-abilita-mentali:new_claim:2026-02-24:riportatoTue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT