Recent technological developments in applied sport psychology utilising video-taping and playback techniques to enhance athletic performance have become increasingly attractive to coaches, athletes and sport psychologists (Ives et al., 2002; Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 14, 237-245). This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of two types of highlight peak performance digital versatile discs (DVDs); peer-modelling and self-modelling, on state self-confidence of elite female hockey

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... yers. It further addressed the issue of whether the experience of watching yourself versus observing peers differentially affects state self-confidence. The volunteer participants comprised 15 members of a female National League hockey squad located in the South of England (Age mean 24.53, S = 4.94). DVDs incorporating highlight play were supplemented with inspirational music and viewed by the athletes at two stages in the competitive season (mid-season and end of season). At both stages the athletes were exposed to a peer modelling, selfmodelling and control video during separate testing sessions. Athletes completed the State Sport-Confidence Inventory (Vealey, 1986, Journal of Sport Psychology, 8, 221-246) prior to and after viewing the highlight DVDs. The data were subjected to two 3 x 2 RM ANOVAs to determine if the self-modelling, peer-modelling and control DVDs affected state self-confidence. An RM ANOVA was performed on data collected at the two stages of the competitive season. To determine the nature of change in state self-confidence in relation to type of DVD watched follow up