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Mental Toughness Characteristics of Male University Athletes in Relation To Contextual Factors

Mental toughness is a psychological construct related to successful performance in academics, management, and sports among other sectors. However, studies on the determinants of mental toughness with respect to different human endeavours have remained inconclusive. This study explored mental toughne...

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Autores principales: Rintaugu, Elijah, Mwangi, Francis, Andanje, Nancy, Tian, Xiaojie, Fuku, Noriyuki, Kidokoro, Tetsuhiro
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Publicado: Sciendo 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8884872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291624
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2022-0019
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author Rintaugu, Elijah
Mwangi, Francis
Andanje, Nancy
Tian, Xiaojie
Fuku, Noriyuki
Kidokoro, Tetsuhiro
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Mwangi, Francis
Andanje, Nancy
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Fuku, Noriyuki
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description Mental toughness is a psychological construct related to successful performance in academics, management, and sports among other sectors. However, studies on the determinants of mental toughness with respect to different human endeavours have remained inconclusive. This study explored mental toughness characteristics of male university athletes in selected sports in relation to contextual factors of athletes’ age, playing experience, year of study, and the type of sport. The Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48) was used to collect data from male university athletes (n = 140). Results of this study showed significant difference in the following components of MT: lower scores in challenge (p = .015), emotional control (p = .005), and life control (p = .002) among athletes with shorter playing experience, and higher scores in life control (p < .001), emotional control (p = .021), and confidence in abilities (p = .009) in handball as compared to soccer players. Soccer players had significantly higher scores in the challenge component (p = .038) of mental toughness as compared to handball players. It was concluded that playing experience and the type of sport influenced characteristics of mental toughness among university athletes. Coaches, trainers, and sports psychologists need to consider these contextual factors to optimize mental toughness of athletes. Future studies should explore how specific contextual factors influence training environments and outcomes, as well as how stakeholders can leverage on the relationships between playing experience, the type of sport and mental toughness to augment athletes’ mental toughness and sports performance.
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spelling pubmed-88848722022-03-14 Mental Toughness Characteristics of Male University Athletes in Relation To Contextual Factors Rintaugu, Elijah Mwangi, Francis Andanje, Nancy Tian, Xiaojie Fuku, Noriyuki Kidokoro, Tetsuhiro J Hum Kinet Section IV - Sport of Disabled Mental toughness is a psychological construct related to successful performance in academics, management, and sports among other sectors. However, studies on the determinants of mental toughness with respect to different human endeavours have remained inconclusive. This study explored mental toughness characteristics of male university athletes in selected sports in relation to contextual factors of athletes’ age, playing experience, year of study, and the type of sport. The Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48) was used to collect data from male university athletes (n = 140). Results of this study showed significant difference in the following components of MT: lower scores in challenge (p = .015), emotional control (p = .005), and life control (p = .002) among athletes with shorter playing experience, and higher scores in life control (p < .001), emotional control (p = .021), and confidence in abilities (p = .009) in handball as compared to soccer players. Soccer players had significantly higher scores in the challenge component (p = .038) of mental toughness as compared to handball players. It was concluded that playing experience and the type of sport influenced characteristics of mental toughness among university athletes. Coaches, trainers, and sports psychologists need to consider these contextual factors to optimize mental toughness of athletes. Future studies should explore how specific contextual factors influence training environments and outcomes, as well as how stakeholders can leverage on the relationships between playing experience, the type of sport and mental toughness to augment athletes’ mental toughness and sports performance. Sciendo 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8884872/ /pubmed/35291624 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2022-0019 Text en © 2022 Elijah Rintaugu, Francis Mwangi, Nancy Andanje, Xiaojie Tian, Noriyuki Fuku, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, published by Sciendo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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title_short Mental Toughness Characteristics of Male University Athletes in Relation To Contextual Factors
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topic Section IV - Sport of Disabled
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8884872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291624
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2022-0019
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