Scientific evidence indicates that regular physical activity slows the rate of decline of most physiological agerelated parameters associated with health, fitness and quality of life [1]. Senior athletes provide an ideal model for successful aging. Although most of the information derives from individual closed-skill sports, little information is available regarding the motivation to sport part...

Objectives: To examine the influence of perceptions of the motivational climate, self-efficacy, and perceived importance on athletes’ claimed situational self-handicaps in a competitive sport setting. Perceptions of a task involving climate and self-efficacy were expected to be negatively related and perceptions of an ego-involving climate to be positively related to situational self-handicappi...

BACKGROUND Neurocognitive testing has been endorsed as a "cornerstone" of concussion management by recent Vienna and Prague meetings of the Concussion in Sport Group. Neurocognitive testing is important given the potential unreliability of athlete self-report after injury. Relying only on athletes' reports of symptoms may result in premature return of athletes to contact sport, potentially expo...

The objective pursued to conduct the present research was study of relationship between education of emotional intelligence components and positive thinking in promotion of mental health and self-efficacy in female running athletes of Ardabil' Takhtei athletic stadium. In order to select research sample, screening method was used in a manner that after completion of a General Health Questionnai...

The purpose of this study was to analyse from the perspective of the achievement goal theory and the self-determination theory some variables which could help to promote positive motivation and to improve dispositional flow in adolescent athletes. A sample of 413 young athletes (from 12 to 16 years of age) completed the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2, Perception of Succ...