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The two studies that measured this with the same scale do not say the same thing. In the first, 155 British competitors drawn from archery and golf, those who report having choked at least once do not score higher on public self-consciousness than those who never have, so they do not think more about the image they project, although among the archers alone the means point the other way (3.08 against 2.66) with no test to check it; they do, however, fear negative evaluation by others more and feel a stronger need not to show their imperfections, and they pay more attention to their own inner states. In the second, 115 competitive Italian archers, it is the image scale itself that is linked to a slightly higher number of choking episodes over the previous six months (r = 0.23, p < 0.05), while attention to one's own inner states is not (r = 0.16), and neither is social anxiety, even though it goes hand in hand with concern for one's image (r = 0.72). In both studies some measure of concern about how others see you goes with choking, but never the same one, and the scale built to measure it directly says yes in one study and no in the other; even where the link is present, a correlation of 0.23 accounts for about five per cent of the differences between archers. These are questionnaires collected on one occasion, with two different definitions of choking: having had it at least once in a lifetime, or how many times in the previous six months.

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