Longitudinal influence of self-compassion and fears of compassion on prosocial and antisocial behaviour in sport: A conditional latent growth curve modelling analysis

The impact of self-compassion on athlete wellbeing is well established. Much less researched the self-compassion, and its related fears (hereafter “fears compassion”) athletes’ prosocial antisocial behaviours. Indeed, sporting contexts offer opportunities for athletes to demonstrate behaviours towards teammates competitors, these could lead various performance wellbeing-related consequences. Given well-documented benefits a compassion, intention investigate alternative antecedents or predictors behaviour in sport, we assessed longitudinal influences compassion study used repeated measures design, where 324 (174 male, 150 female) from 35 different sports (22 individual sports, 13 team sports) completed surveys at baseline 4th 8th month. Conditional latent growth curve modelling revealed higher lower receiving others were associated with greater behaviours, whilst behaviour, over eight months. Results also trend increase across period. Compassion-based interventions may be value improve sport contexts.