Automatic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports (ASTQS)

Identifying the structure of athletes’ self-talk can help enhancing our understanding regarding the role of thoughts athletes experience during sport competition and advance self-talk research. Furthermore, it can help athletes, coaches and sport psychologists evaluate with greater precision athletes’ thoughts and facilitate developing and applying effective self-talk plans for athletes. Toward this direction, the ASTQS, an instrument identifying the multidimensional structure of athletes’ self-talk, appears to be a promising tool (Zourbanos et al. 2009).

Dear Colleague 

Here you can find references regarding the use of ASTQS. For the questionnaire and the scoring of the ASTQS please send us an e-mail

References
Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis A., Theodorakis Y., Chroni, S. (2006, July). Evidence on the validity of the Automatic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports (ASTQS): A preliminary analysis on negative self-talk. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Congress of European College of Sport Sciences – ECSS (165-166). Lausanne, Switzerland.

Zourbanos, N., Theodorakis .Y, & Hatzigeorgiadis A. (2006, July). Can significant other’s behaviour influence our way of thinking? The effects of positive and negative behaviour on automatic thoughts during a tennis stroke. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Congress of European College of Sport Sciences – ECSS (p. 165). Lausanne, Switzerland.

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., & Theodorakis, Y. (2007, May). Assessing the structure of athletes’ automatic thoughts: The automatic self-talk questionnaire for sports. A preliminary analysis on positive self-talk. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of PSNG on Psychological Assessment (p. 166). Thessaloniki, Greece.

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Davis, P., & Theodorakis, Y. (2007, September). Social support, self-talk and affect. Proceedings of the 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology – FEPSAC (pp. 332-333). Halkidiki, Greece.

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Chroni, S., Theodorakis, Y., & Papaioannou, A. (2009). Automatic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports (ASTQS): Development and preliminary validation of a measure identifying the structure of athletes’ self-talk. The Sport Psychologist, 23, 233-251  

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Tsiakaras, N., Chroni, S., & Theodorakis, Y. (2010). A multi-method examination of the relationship between coaching behavior and athletes’ inherent self-talk. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 32, 764-785

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., & Kalaroglou, S. (2011). The relationship between observable and inherent self-talk in tennis players during competitive performance. Proceedings of the 13th European Congress of Sport Psychology – FEPSAC (p. 198). Funchal, Madeira.

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Goudas, M., Papaioannou, A., Chroni, S., & Theodorakis, Y. (2011). The social side of self-talk: Relationships between perceptions of support received from the coach and athletes’ self-talk. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 12, 407-414 

Argyropoulou E., Zourbanos, N., & Papaioannou, A., (2012). The relationship between achievement goals and self-talk in physical education. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Congress of European College of Sport Sciences – ECSS (p. 205). Bruges, Belgium.

Zourbanos, N., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Theodorakis, Y. (2012). Self-talk in sport, new findings and future research. Proceedings of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Sportpsychologie 25 years - VVSP congress, entitled Days of Fundamentals in Sport Psychology (pp.14-15). Ghent, Belgium. 

Zourbanos, N., & Papaioannou, A., (2013). The relationships between achievement goals and self-talk in youth football players. Proceedings of the 13th World Congress of the International Society of Sport Psychology- ISSP, Beijing, China.

Papaioannou, A., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., & Zourbanos, N. (2013). Motivation and self-talk in young football players. A self-determination perspective. Proceedings of the 14th European Congress of Sport Psychology – FEPSAC (p.29 ). Paris, France.

Zourbanos, N., Papaioannou, A., Argyropoulou, E., & Hatzigeorgiadis, A (2014). Achievement goals and self-talk in physical education: The moderating role of perceived competence. Motivation and Emotion, 38(2), 235-251. DOI 10.1007/s11031-013-9378-x.
​
Zourbanos, N., Haznadar, A., Papaioannou, A., Tzioumakis, Y.,  Krommidas, Ch., & Hatzigeorgiadis, A. (2016). The Relationships Between Athletes’ Perceptions of Coach-Created Motivational Climate, Self-Talk, and Self-Efficacy in Youth Football. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 28, 97-112. DOI:10.1080/10413200.2015.1074630

ASTQS in other languages

Dutch: Indien u als student wilt deelnemen aan een onderzoeksproject rond aspecten van self talk in sport en fysieke activiteit met behulp van de Nederlandstalige versie van de ASTQS (ASTIS), gelieve dan contact te nemen met Mevr. Caroline Jannes (caroline.jannes@psy4sport.be).

German: Für Studierenden, die Interesse für das Selbstgespräch im Sport durch die deutsche ASTQS haben, bitte kontaktieren Sie Peter Schneider (peter.schneider@uni-leipzig.de).

References
Schneider, P., Preis, F., Zourbanos, N., Latinjak, A. T. & Hatzigeorgiadis, A. (2013). Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie (asp) in Halle (Saale): „Selbstgespräche im Wettkampfsport: Eine vorläufige Validierung des ASTQS (Automatic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports)“. Germany

Persian: دانشجويان علاقمند به انجام طرح هاي تحقيقاتي در خصوص بررسي ابعاد خودگفتاري در ورزش از طريق نسخه فارسي ASTQS لطفا با دكتر شهزاد طهماسبي بروجني تماس بگيريد.
(E-mail: shahzadtahmaseb@ut.ac.ir)

Spanish: Aquellos estudiantes interesados en levar a cabo proyectos de
investigación relacionados con el auto-habla en deporte y ejecicio físico
y que quiran hacer servir la versión Española del ASTQS, por favor
contactad con el Dr. Alexander Latinjak 
(mail: alexander.latinjak@cadscrits.udg.edu)

References
Latinjak, A.T., Viladrich, C., Alcaraz, S., Torregrosa, M. (in press). Spanish adaptation and validation of the Automatic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.


Turkish: "Türkçe ASTQ-PE (Beden Eğitiminde İçsel Konuşma Ölçeği: İKO-BE) ile spor, egzersiz ve beden eğitiminde içsel konuşmayı incelemek isteyenler, lütfen Dr. E. Nilay ADA (e-mail: elifnilayada@gmail.com) ile iletişime geçiniz."

Indonesian: For the Indonesian ASTQS please contact:  lufiretnowati@yahoo.co.id
Lufi Retnowati 

Serbian: Za prevedenu i adaptiranu verziju upitnika ASTQS na srpskom jeziku molimo Vas kontaktirajte 
Mašu Marjanović (e:mail: masa.marjanovic@gmail.com)