BACKGROUND Sports-related dental injuries, such as tooth fracture, loosening, and avulsion, are a major concern among young athletes because they directly impair oral function. Although the preventive efficacy of mouthguards has been well established, the prevalence of sports-related dental injuries remains high among young athletes. The aim of this study is to identify the variables contributi...

Sports and energy (S/E) drinks are commonly used by high school (HS) athletes, yet little is known about this population’s consumption patterns or the drinks’ side-effects. The objectives of this pilot study were to survey HS athletes about their use of S/E drinks and assess potential side-effects. One hundred American HS athletes (72 were female; 27 were male; one did not identify gender) were...

Student-athletes were studied over 4 years at a highly selective liberal arts college and an Ivy League university. Students spending 10 or more hours per week in athletic activities had lower entering academic credentials and academic selfassessments than non-athletes, but the academic performance of athletes was not below what would be expected based on their entering profiles. Athletes surpa...

emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage self-emotions and others' emotions and includes the intelligent use of emotions. this study aimed at investigating the emotional intelligence in male and female elite athletes in team and individual sport fields. the sample consisted of 62 female elite athletes and 74 male elite athletes selected from different individual and t...

This study examined the relationships between athletes’ perceptions of coaching effectiveness, based on the coaching efficacy model, and their effort, commitment, enjoyment, self-efficacy, and prosocial and antisocial behavior in rugby union. Participants were 166 adult male rugby-union players (M age = 26.5, SD = 8.5 years), who completed questionnaires measuring their perceptions of four dime...

Objectives: Using theDualisticModel of Passion [Vallerand et al. (2003). Les passions de l’âme: on obsessive and harmonious passion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 756e767], this studyexamined the role of coaches’ passion for coaching in athletes’ perceptions of the quality of the coacheathlete relationship. Moreover, we hypothesized that coaches’ harmonious and obsessive pas...

researchers use resiliency for people who do not show undesirable consequences in terrible and unsafe conditions. resiliency is often referred to constructive and positive compatibility in order to deal with problems. as athletes cannot cope with their defeats most of the time, they should study this issue and its interaction and acquisition. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the...