Mental Toughness in Sport: Motivational Antecedents and Associations With Performance and Psychological Health
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Mental toughness in sport: motivational antecedents and associations with performance and psychological health.
We argue that basic psychological needs theory (BPNT) offers impetus to the value of mental toughness as a mechanism for optimizing human functioning. We hypothesized that psychological needs satisfaction (thwarting) would be associated with higher (lower) levels of mental toughness, positive affect, and performance and lower (higher) levels of negative affect. We also expected that mental toug...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0895-2779,1543-2904
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.2013-0260