What could explain the psychological well-being and performance of young athletes? The role of social safeness and self-criticism

Bibliographic Data

ID14826151
AuthorsSara Oliveira (0000-0002-0423-7959), Sara Margarida Simões Oliveira (0000-0003-2524-918X, University of Coimbra, corresponding author), Marina Cunha (0000-0002-5957-1903, University of Coimbra), António Rosado (0000-0003-2336-0853, University of Lisbon), Beatriz B Gomes (0000-0003-2885-7666, University of Coimbra), Beatriz Gomes, Joana Marta-Simões (0000-0002-7020-9606, University of Coimbra)
Year2022
Volume40
Issue2
Pages191-203
Publication date2022-12-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnálise Psicológica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0870-8231 • E-ISSN: 1646-6020
PublisherISPA - Instituto Universitario (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14417/ap.1913
OpenAlexW4313485881
LanguageEN
References cited8

Literature has highlighted that it is important to explore factors that may contribute to athletes’ well-being and also to sports performance, especially in young athletes. This study aimed to test a model that hypothesized that athlete-related social safeness (feelings of belonging to the team) has an effect on the psychological well-being and performance through self-criticism.This study sample comprised 164 Portuguese adolescent athletes of both genders, who practiced different sports.The path analysis results confirmed the proposed model’s adequacy, which explained 52% and 28% of the variance of the psychological well-being and performance, respectively. Results demonstrated that athletes who presented higher social safeness levels tend to reveal higher levels of psychological well-being and perceived performance through lower levels of self-criticism.These novel findings suggest the importance of adopting supportive and safe relationships between teammates due to their positive association with athletes’ mental health and performance

Athletes · Criticism · Feeling · Mental health · Physical therapy · Portuguese · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports Performance and Training

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