Análise da produção científica sobre autoeficácia no contexto esportivo: um estudo no cenário brasileiro

Abstract

The self-efficacy construct or belief that the individual has in relation to one’s own ability to perform certain activity, has been investigated in different areas of knowledge, including in the field of sport. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to analyze the scientific production on self-efficacy in the sports context, in the Brazilian scenario. For that matter, searches of articles, theses and dissertations were performed, in digital databases of Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), inLiteratura Latino-Americana e do Caribe emCiências da Saúde (LILACS) and in bank of dissertations and theses of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Data collection was performed in November 2021, with the use of the descriptors “self-efficacy”, “self-efficacy” and “personal effectiveness and a Portuguese language filter. The initial search identified 1.163 articles (SciELO = 343; LILACS = 820) and 880 theses and dissertations, and after analyzing the eligibility criteria 32 studies (7 articles and 25 dissertations/theses) were selected for the analysis. The first study was found in 2006, and the largest number of publications per year was found in 2013 (n = 6). The institution of the authors with the highest number of publications was the Federal Universityof Paraná (UFPR) (n = 5), volleyball (n=8) and swimming (n = 4) being the most investigated sports analyzing self-efficacy.It is concluded that the panorama of studies on self-efficacy in sport is recent and with a relatively low number of publications, compared to the conjuncture of studies of other themes analyzed in the sports context in the Brazilian scenario. In addition, the need to standardize questionnaires regarding sports self-efficacy is understood, in order to increase reliability, and therefore reproducibility.