An archery course raises beginners' self-confidence

2 studies · 102 archers measured

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A single study of beginners, with no comparison group, finds more self-confidence after a course. In 2022, at an Indonesian university, seventy beginners take nine one-hour lessons over three weeks with plywood bows and PVC arrows, and their self-confidence questionnaire score rises from 48.0 to 53.5 on a 20 to 100 scale (p < 0.001). Without a group that does not shoot, there is no telling how much of that rise comes from the bow and how much from taking up a new activity with others, and during the pandemic, with COVID-19 rules in force, at that; the journal is regional, with a table that does not fit the scale. An older account points the same way: in 2017, at a Turkish secondary school, some of the thirty-two students who had taken twelve archery lessons mention self-confidence among the things they gained, but these are interviews, with no questionnaire, in a journal with doubtful editorial standards, and they do not count towards the status.

Also phrased as: "archery builds confidence"; "archery and self-esteem"; "archery for shy children"; "self-confidence through archery"; "psychological benefits of archery"

In practice

Archery is said to be especially good for shy young people: watching the arrows group on the target, lesson after lesson, is thought to give a confidence they carry off the range.

Evidence

2017
Context Archers Published later

32 students in their eleventh year at a Turkish secondary school take a block of twelve archery lessons, one a week; 18 of them (9 girls and 9 boys) are interviewed for 15 to 30 minutes, with 80 per cent agreement between coders. Among the things gained the students mention self-confidence, and the boys say archery raised their self-esteem. There is no confidence questionnaire and no control group. The journal has doubtful editorial standards, so the finding stays as context and does not decide the status.

Investigation of Participation Motivations in Exercises of Students Participating in Archery in Extra Curricular Activities Questionable venue · Nevin Gündüz, Muzaffer Toprak Keskin, Fuat Erduğan
2022
For Archers Published later

70 Indonesian novice university students (20.7 ± 1.3 years) take nine 60-minute lessons over three weeks with plywood bows and PVC arrows. Self-confidence, measured with a 20-item questionnaire scored 1 to 5, rises from 48.00 ± 7.98 to 53.47 ± 7.31 (t = 10.66, p < 0.001). Another table in the same article gives 5.47 and 6.20, values that are impossible on that scale. A single group, with no control.

Increasing students' mood state and self-confidence: 3 weeks plywood bow pvc archery program · Abdurrohman Muzakki, Bustanol Arifin, Setiya Yunus Saputra, Edi Setiawan, Ruslan Abdul Gani, Zsolt Németh

Status history

1990 Not studied In the registry's bibliography nobody had yet measured the self-confidence of people learning to shoot, before and after a course: that archery gives beginners confidence was said without data.
2017 Not studied The first account comes from a Turkish secondary school: thirty-two students take twelve archery lessons, one a week, and in interviews with eighteen of them self-confidence appears among the things they say they gained. These are the students' own words, with no confidence questionnaire and no group that does not shoot, and the journal has doubtful editorial standards: a venue like that does not decide a status, and the question remains unstudied.
2022 Reported The first questionnaire measure arrives: seventy beginners at an Indonesian university, nine one-hour lessons over three weeks, and self-confidence rises from 48.0 to 53.5 on a 20 to 100 scale (p < 0.001). It is a single study, a before-and-after with no control group, in a regional journal: there is evidence in favour and it is limited, so reported.

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APA

Campagna, M. (2026). An archery course raises beginners' self-confidence (Version 2). In Evidence Registry. Retrieved 16 October 2026, from https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/archery-course-beginner-self-confidence

BibTeX

@misc{campagna2026_corsotirofiduciaprincipianti,
  author = {Campagna, Matteo},
  title = {An archery course raises beginners' self-confidence},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Evidence Registry, matteocampagna.com},
  url = {https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/archery-course-beginner-self-confidence},
  note = {Version 2; accessed 2026-10-16}
}

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