Method: 51 dancers (45 female and six male aged 18-26 years) at a dance academy in
Sweden participated in the study. The course in psychological skills training stretched over
four months with four to six lessons. A shortened version of the Test of Performance
Strategies was completed by the dancers at the first and last lesson. Descriptive statistics, oneway
between-groups analysis of variance (ANOVA), and paired-samples t-tests were used to
analyze the data. Memoing was practised to document the dancers’ direct response to the
course.