Evaluation of Sport Mental Toughness and Psychological Wellbeing in Undergraduate Student Athletes

Autor/inn/en	Micoogullari, Bulent Okan; Odek, Ugur; Beyaz, Ozkan
Titel	Evaluation of Sport Mental Toughness and Psychological Wellbeing in Undergraduate Student Athletes
Quelle	In: Educational Research and Reviews, 12 (2017) 8, S.483-487 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1990-3839
Schlagwörter	Athletes; College Athletics; Undergraduate Students; Well Being; Mental Health; Resilience (Psychology); Coping; Physical Education; Questionnaires; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Regression (Statistics); Foreign Countries; Psychological Patterns; Likert Scales; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Athlet; College athletes; Collegesport; Hochschulsport; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Psychohygiene; Bewältigung; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Fragebogen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Ausland; Likert-Skala; Türkei
Abstract	This study aims to evaluate the relationships between sport mental toughness (SMT) and psychological wellbeing (PWB) of undergraduate student athletes. Mental toughness represents the ability of a person to cope with the demands of training and competition, increased determination, focus, confidence, and maintain control under pressure. Mental toughness has been explained as the ability of an athlete to cope with the requests of practice and competition, improved determination, focus, self-confidence and keeping control under pressure. The concept of PWB has been introduced in eudaimonic part as the realization of potential through some form of struggle. The sample of the study constituted by 130 participants from two Turkish universities, included participants from a Physical Education and Sport Education program from four years of standard undergraduate study. To assess mental toughness, the Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ) (Sheard et al., 2009) was administered; while to assess PWB, Ryff's PWB scale (1989a) were given to volunteer participants. To identify the internal consistency of the validated questionnaires, Cronbach's alpha score was used. The relationship between SMT and PWB was identified by conduction of Pearson Product Moment Correlations. To check for age, gender and level of the study, the hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses was used to examine the predictive capacity of mental toughness on PWB. Multiple linear regression analyses' findings revealed that sub-dimensions of SMT were moderate to strong predictors of PWB with between 40 and 66% of variance explained. Consequently, the demographic factors were not found to predict PWB. These results are consistent with the assumptions and continue to show the potential importance of SMT within the physical education and sports learning environments. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01