Search Results - Personality and Individual Differences
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Coping strategies before competition: the role of stress, cognitive appraisal, and emotions
Nogueira, J. M., Simães, C., Morais, C., Mansell, P., Gomes, A. R.Published in Sports (2025)“…Thus, this study analyzes how different coping strategies anticipated to be employed in an important competition are explained by psychological (i.e., cognitive appraisal and emotions) and person and sports-related factors (i.e., gender, type of sport). …”
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Human resilience and pain coping strategies: a review of the literature giving insights from elite ultra-endurance athletes for sports science, medicine and society
Paley, C. A., Johnson, M. I.Published in Sports Medicine (2025)“…This allows athletes to achieve personal and competitive goals in the face of severe physical discomfort. …”
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Foreign high-performance sport coach's professional experience: a case study of Japanese water polo coach in Singapore
Mizushima, J., Tomura, T.Published in Journal of Physical Education and Sport (2025)“…First, Job Demands encompassed producing strong results for major competitions in a socio-cultural context distinct from Japan, adapting to local work cultures, and negotiating differences in team members` motivations. Second, Job Resources included the coach`s personal competencies, high levels of work engagement and self-efficacy, and organizational resources such as scientific support and full-time assistant coaches. …”
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The motivational level of performance swimmers and its impact on the risk of sports dropout
Brat, V., Bota, A., Mitrache, G., Teodorescu, S.Published in Sports (2025)“…The intervention consisted of motivational coaching, personalized training plans, and the development of mental skills. …”
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Patterns of reasons for retirement in Olympic athletes from Switzerland: a person-oriented study
Schmid, M. J., De Crom, L., Conzelmann, A., Schmid, J.Published in International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2025)“…Although the literature repeatedly emphasises that retirement decisions are multi-causal and individual-specific, quantitative studies have hardly taken this into account methodologically. …”
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Well-being needs of elite sports coaches
Ruddock, M., Donaldson, A.Published in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2024)“…It is a participatory mixed-methods approach that integrates qualitative individual and group processes with multivariate statistical analyses to help a group of individuals describe ideas on a specific topic and represent these ideas visually through a series of related two-dimensional maps. …”
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Experience of Czech elite trampolinists and their coaches with lost move syndrome
Novotná, A., Burešová, I.Published in Science of Gymnastics Journal (2024)“…Physical manifestations of LMS in individual trampolinists were quite different. Fear and misunderstanding of LMS were common psychological issues in all trampolinists. …”
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Pick your battles: Elite ski-jumpers` motives affect world cup performance depending on competition type
Müller, F., Hocke, S., Cañal-Bruland, R.Published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise (2024)“…These findings attest to the role of personality differences in predicting motor performance variability in elite sports.…”
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Exploring relevance of personality traits in athletes: A correlation research between anxiety and reactive stress tolerance
Mishra, A. K.Published in International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health (2024)“…The findings emphasize the need for personalized approaches in enhancing athlete performance and mental well being, and suggest further research to explore long-term effects and individual differences in these interventions.…”
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How do anxiety and stress affect soccer referees? An ERPs study
Zhang, L., Shi, H., Zhang, H., Ding, J., Wang, Z.Published in Frontiers in Psychology (2024)“…The decision-making of soccer referees is one of the typical forms influenced by factors such as environmental pressure and individual emotions. While previous studies have explored how common factors like personal anxiety and on-field pressure affect the decisions of soccer referees, the mechanisms by which anxiety influences decision-making under pressure remain unclear. …”
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How small differences grow over time - the snowball effect of grit on practice in sport
Cocic, D., Larkin, P., Hendry, D. T., Williams, A. M., O`Connor, D., Bilalic, M.Published in International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2025)“…We demonstrate in a large sample (N = 388) of Australian elite youth soccer players that they retrospectively report different amounts of practice at various stages of development and that acquisition is driven by the personality trait of grit. …”
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Elite mindset (a coaches` perspective on the tools athletes need to perform their best)
Wilkins, B.Published in Techniques Magazine (2024)“…The stimas that once surrounded these topics are slowly fading as more individuals come forwards to share their stories. Many of these individuals are the athletes we watch compete each week. …”
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A systematic review exploring the reflective accounts of applied sport psychology practitioners
Wadsworth, N., McEwan, H., Lafferty, M., Eubank, M., Tod, D.Published in International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2021)“…Analysis of the reflective accounts resulted in the creation of nine higher-order themes: Process and Purpose of Reflective Practice; Ethical Practice; Supporting Person and Performer; Practitioner Individuation; Relationships with Clients; Cultural Awareness; Competence-Related Angst; Support of Practitioner Development; and Evaluating Practitioner Effectiveness. …”
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Identität im Hochleistungssport: Überprüfung einer deutschsprachigen Adaptation der Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS-D) (Identity in high-performance sport: Psychometric investigations with a German language adaptation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS-D))
Schmid, J., Seiler, R.Published in Diagnostica (2003)“…In line with previous research, athletic identity corresponds to the amount of time spent in training, societal significance of a sport, and the number of social roles taken by an individual. AIMS-D scores differ between stages of an athletic career, but are barely correlated with the big five personality factors and self-esteem. …”
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Investigating the experience of stress and coping in elite athletes
Barlow, D.Published 2023“…Previous research has split stress sources (in athletes) into three categories; performance, organisational and personal. Studies have tended to focus on the three stressor categories as individual phenomena; therefore, this study aims to explore the sources of stress as a group to investigate the effect they have on each other. …”
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Sporto treneriu suvokiamos savireguliacijos vertinimas (Assessing perceived self-regulation of sports coaches)
Gražulis, D., Sabaliauskas, S., Žilinskiene, N., Kaukenas, T.Published in Sporto Mokslas-Sport Science (2022)“…The study involved 43 team and individual sport coaches (15 women, 28 men) representing 20 sports. …”