Senior Researcher & Professor at the KIHU-Research Institute for Olympic Sports (Finland). Speaker Web Site Yuri Hanin, Ph.D. Internationally renowned sport psychologist Yuri L.Hanin, PhD, is professor and senior researcher at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports in Jyväskylä, Finland. He has been a university-level teacher and researcher in the field of sport psychology for more than 30 years. The author of three books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles related to optimizing sports performance, Yuri Hanin has carried out training and consulting activities with national, international and Olympic teams, athletes, and coaches. In addition he has been a speaker at conferences throughout USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. Dr Hanin holds Ph.D.(1970) and Doctor of Psychological Sciences (1986) degrees in Social Psychology from Leningrad University. He recieved the 1998 Visiting Scholar Award from the Australia College of Sport Psychologists and the 1999 Distinguished International Scholar Award from the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. Dr. Hanin has served as an associate editor of the European Yearbook of Sport Psychology. He is also a newesletter editor for the International Association of Applied Psychology and member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Sport Psychology, The Sport Psychologist, revista de Psicologia del Deporte and Coching and Sport Science. He has unique experience and wisdom on succesfull and poor performance related to emotions. Session Information: Individualized Emotion Profiling of Performance-Related States Effective emotion regulation in high-level performers requires emotional intelligence and ability to “read” emotional states of participants. In any high-achievement setting, four crucial aspects are: (a) assessment of individually optimal and dysfunctional emotional states, relatively stable emotion patterns, and meta-emotions; (b) individual-oriented prediction of emotion-performance relationships; (c) selection of adequate self-regulation technique(s), and (d) evaluation of post-intervention effects. This workshop will highlight recent developments in the idiographic assessments of optimal and dysfunctional emotions in competitive and elite-level sport. A brief overview of sports-specific individualized approach (termed - the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning [IZOF] model) will be provided. This action-oriented framework uses five basic dimensions (form, content, intensity, time, and context) to describe performance related idiosyncratic emotional experiences. The four IZOF-based predictions of emotion-performance relationships focus on interindividual variability of optimal emotion content and intensity, the in-out of the zone notion in prediction of athletic performance, interactive effects of emotions enhancing and impairing performance, and bi-directionality of emotion-performance relationships. Several data collection techniques for assessment of idiosyncratic emotion content will be described. These include interviews, step-wise individualized emotion profiling, metaphor-generation method, and narratives. The major focus in the assessments using self-generated descriptors will be on cognitive, affective, motivational, bodily, and behavioural (motor and communicative) components of psychobiosocial states. Implications for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the analysis of performance related states will be discussed.