Mental toughness and behavioural perseverance: A conceptual replication and extension

When the going gets tough: Mental toughness and its relationship with behavioural perseverance.

OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between self-reported mental toughness and behavioural perseverance among a sample of male Australian footballers in a naturalistic context. DESIGN Cross-sectional field study, with the multistage 20m shuttle run test (MST) employed as a proxy for behavioural perseverance. METHODS 330 male Australian footballers aged between 15 and 18 years (M=...

Mental Toughness 1 Running Head: Mental Toughness The Concept of Mental Toughness: Tests of Dimensionality, Nomological Network and Traitness

1 Objectives: Mental toughness has received increased scholarly attention in recent years, yet 2 conceptual issues related to its (i) dimensionality, (ii) nomological network, and (iii) traitness 3 remain unresolved. The series of studies reported in this paper were designed to examine 4 these three substantive issues across several achievement contexts including sport, education, 5 military an...

Toughness and matching extension in graphs

P25: Talent and Perseverance

Many people think that all you need to succeed at anything is talent but talent alone without perseverance and determination, cannot help you achieve success. Talent is helpful but perseverance ensured one achieves success. A child can show an exceptional talent for storytelling, but if he ignores his teacher’s comments and doesn’t work on his stories, he will never be a great novel...

Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect

INTRODUCTION Pivotal to athletic performance is the ability to more maintain desired athletic performance levels during particularly critical periods of competition [1], such as during pressurised situations that typically evoke elevated levels of anxiety (e.g., penalty kicks) or when exposed to unexpected adversities (e.g., unfavourable umpire calls on crucial points) [2, 3]. These kinds of si...