"shattered confidence" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a loss or decrease in self-assurance or self-belief. Example: After failing her math exam, Sarah's once strong and unwavering confidence was now shattered.
A victory at Fenway could boost Vazquez's shattered confidence.
"There is a shattered confidence we haven't seen in a long time," said Bruce Holley, senior partner at the firm.
First, however, the players' shattered confidence needed rebuilding – seeing this the next day, the waiters in their hotel offered to play them in a training game.
American Samoa had spent nearly two decades losing — and losing badly — so the hardest part for Rongen was dealing with the team's shattered confidence.
And as bond markets are getting the jitters again, promises of a return to growth this year have failed to restore shattered confidence.
Mr Cavallo's ingenious fiddling (his latest wheeze was to decree cuts in peso interest rates), and Mr de la Rua's indecision, have shattered confidence.
When the credit crunch broke in summer, lending was pulled back and prices fell, shattering confidence.
Mr Summers and Mr Geithner reckoned either step would shatter confidence in the financial system, and instead hit upon a series of "stress tests" to determine which banks had enough capital.
That is the risk of a chain reaction, a global market meltdown that could shatter confidence and plunge the world into recession or worse.
It is the first time he has suggested that the terrorist network Al Qaeda was seeking to "shatter confidence in the world economic system".
That leaves the option of slowing the frenzied pace of deficit reduction, which Mr Osborne still insists cannot be done without shattering "confidence" and pushing up borrowing costs.
