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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Mental Toughness"”.
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Mental toughness and overtraining behaviours
The idea of mental toughness (MT) is bewitching. The construct is consistently associated with success and being able to overcome great difficulties while demonstrating dogged perseverance regardless of adversity (Gucciardi, Gordon, & Dimmock, 2008; Jones, Hanton, & Connaughton, 2002). It is no …
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Development of the Mental Toughness Situational Judgment Test: A Novel Approach to Assessing Mental Toughness
Mental toughness (MT) has been shown to predict outcomes across a variety of high-stress contexts such as athletics, the military, and the workplace. Despite this, researchers have struggled to reach consensus regarding how best to conceptualize and measure MT. Specifically, MT assessments have …
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Mental toughness in elite football officiating
… provided an in-depth study into understanding Mental Toughness (MT) and its development within elite football referees. A secondary purpose was to use the findings of the series of studies contained herein, to bridge the gap between theory and applied practice by providing recommendations for …
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Mental Toughness in the Classical Martial Arts
The construct of mental toughness is in a state of evolution and refinement. The current study proposed to investigate; (1) the importance of mental toughness attributes from a Classical Martial Arts context, (2) the trainability of the mental toughness attributes from a Classical Martial Arts …
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Mental toughness, servant leadership, and the collegiate distance runner
<p>"Mental toughness is commonly associated with successful performance in the realm of athletics. However, despite the prevalence of its usage, the concept remains somewhat ambiguous in its definition and practical application. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between …
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The construct of mental toughness : a psychometric and experimental analysis
Mental toughness is a familiar and commonplace term in both the sporting arena and the workplace. However, attempts to investigate the nature of mental toughness have been inconclusive and, following more than twenty years of research, the construct remained ill-defined. As a consequence of this …
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An Analysis of the Components of Mental Toughness in Sport
… becoming aware of the importance of developing mentally tough performers and are designing programs to develop it in their athletes. One of the most significant problems in designing these programs is the inconsistency in the definition and description of mental toughness. If programs are to be …
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Effects of a short term mental skills training program on mental toughness
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A Study of the Relationship Between Mental Toughness and Success in College Basketball
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The perception of mental toughness of student-athletes in their academic and sports domains
… university student-athletes’ perceptions of mental toughness in both their sport and academic domains. This study took a general qualitative approach through a constructivist lens, to allow for student-athletes’ perceptions to shape the understanding of mental toughness. There were a total of …
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Investigating the Convergent, Discriminant, and Predictive Validity of the Mental Toughness Situational Judgment Test
… of scores of a workplace-based measure of mental toughness, the Mental Toughness Situational Judgment Test (MTSJT). The goal of the study was to determine if MTSJT scores predicted supervisor ratings 1) differentially compared to other measures of mental toughness, grit, and resilience, and …
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Mental toughness in Icelandic female football players : comparisons of the national team, top and second top women's divisions
… tactical, physical, and psychological skills. Mental toughness is an umbrella term used to define the mental traits of athletes who perform well in practice and competition while others struggle. Mixed method research was used. The study's goal was to compare the quantitative study of potential …
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Developing a Framework of Mental Toughness in Youth Football: Exploring Mentally Tough Behaviours and Personality to Aid Talent Development
… this PhD thesis was to create a behaviour-based mental toughness (MT) development framework to support the youth development pathway within the FAWT. To achieve this aim, the thesis consisted of three empirical studies that sought to: (1) examine the psychosocial stressors and situational …
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Psychological Predictors of Pain and Pain-related Outcomes in Athletes
This thesis examined the relationship between mental toughness, specific resources of mental toughness (i.e., optimism, resilience, pain-specific self-efficacy, and attentional control), and pain through a literature review and four studies. The literature review suggested that a relationship …
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Towards an understanding of academic motivation, classroom behaviour and academic attainment in adolescents
… adolescents in an educational setting. The experimental studies were designed to investigate the associations between academic motivation, classroom behaviour, mental toughness and academic attainment in adolescents. Also of interest was to investigate the possibility of developmental trajectories …
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The Impact of a Mental Skills Training Program for Enhanced Performance on a Varsity Intercollegiate Volleyball Team: A Case Study Program Evaluation of an Educational Intervention
… of the educational intervention known as the mental skills training program (MSTP) as implemented with an NCAA Division I volleyball team. The primary evaluation questions are (1) Was individual and/or team performance enhanced during the season? (2) How did the intervention of the MSTP impact …
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Beyond individual flow: distributed flow in ice hockey, its antecedents and consequences to performance
… factors underlying sport performance has been mental toughness. However, recently, flow and metacognition are starting to receive more attention as the understanding of their potential impact is ever increasing. Flow is considered the intersection of task absorption and intrinsic enjoyment, …
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Can psychological attributes predict the playing level of Icelandic footballers four to five years later?
… 2020/21, (ii) whether psychological skills (PS), mental toughness (MT), and competition anxiety (CA) differed across playing levels, (iii) how gender and playing levels interacted with PS, MT, and CA scores, and (iv) whether PS, MT, CA, and gender could predict playing levels in 2024. Methods: A …
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Examining emotional intelligence in sport
… relationships between emotional intelligence, mental toughness, and psychological skills were examined. Results showed that emotional intelligence, mental toughness, and psychological skills relationships co-exist. Arguably, these findings are important given that these variables can relate to …
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