Context: Mental health problems are extremely common all over the world and contribute significantly to illness impairments. There is an acknowledged need for interventions that focus on prevention foster mental health, fulfill this need, sports offer a promising way promote avoid beginning of illness. In study, literature review presented about association between participation across lifespan...

Introduction: Decision-making is one of the key factors that are highly associated with psychological factors. However, there few studies on relationship between this variable and mental toughness. Aim: The purpose study was to investigate toughness decision-making accuracy considering mediating role gender. Method: present a descriptive correlational study. statistical population included all ...

The cleavage fracture toughness of steels was mezzo-scopically analyzed on the basis of the statistical local fracture criterion approach. The statistical stress criterion at the crack tip region suggests that the cleavage fracture toughness in steels can be described as a function of the yield stress, the cleavage fracture stress, and other mechanical properties of the materials. Formulation o...

Open AccessMental health impacts of interpersonal violence in sportsCarla Edwards, Malte Christian Claussen, and Ralph Erich SchmidtCarla EdwardsDr. Carla MD, Michael G. DeGroote School Medicine, McMaster University, Waterloo Regional Campus, 10B Victoria Street South, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G [email protected]://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-1963 Department Psychiatry Behavioral N...

BACKGROUND There is a recognised need for targeted community-wide mental health strategies and interventions aimed specifically at prevention and early intervention in promoting mental health. Young males are a high need group who hold particularly negative attitudes towards mental health services, and these views are detrimental for early intervention and help-seeking. Organised sports provide...

BACKGROUND Participation in organized leisure-time activities (OLTA) has been linked to healthy youth development. This study aimed to assess whether participation in OLTA is associated with both physical and mental health in adolescents, and whether this association differs by pattern of activity participation, age and gender. METHODS The present study was based on data from the 2013/2014 He...

anxiety of sports is one of the variables which is closely related to sports performance and happens in sports competitions. considering the negative effects of competitive anxiety on performance of athletes this study tries to compare competitive anxiety of amateur or professional female futsal players and its connection with self confidence and sports performance. the statistical population o...

The current study examined the relative efficacy of behavioral sports training, medication, and their combination in improving sports competence among youth with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants were 73 youth (74% male; 81% Hispanic) between the ages of 5 and 12 diagnosed with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.) ADHD enrolled in a Summer ...

BACKGROUND The concept of mental toughness (MT) has gained increasing importance among groups other than elite athletes by virtue of its psychological importance and explanatory power for a broad range of health-related behaviors. However, no study has focused so far on the psychological origins of MT. Therefore, the aims of the present study were: to explore, to what extent the psychological p...

Previous research has found that mental toughness is a predictor of attainment in higher education, but there little empirical investigating the underpinnings this. Two studies were therefore conducted to explore why may be important. In Study 1, 123 undergraduates completed measures toughness, flow, engagement with feedback, and reported their academic attainment. Components particularly commi...