Sport Sciences and Health Research

Sport Sciences and Health Research

Resilience and Emotional Reactions to Failure Mediated by Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in Martial Artists

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Mahmoud Mohebi 1
Hassan Gharayagh Zandi 1
Mohammad Ali Besharat 2
Mahboubeh Ghayour Najafabadi 1
1 Department of Motor Behavior and Sports Psychology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
10.32598/JESM.12.1.12
Abstract
Introduction: The present study aimed to examine a proposed model for the relationship between resilience and emotional reactions to failure, mediated by self-compassion and Emotion Regulation (ER) among martial artists.
Materials and Methods: A total of 286 athletes (191 males & 95 females; Mean±SD age: 20.98±3.30 years) from different disciplines of martial arts (taekwondo, karate, Judo, & wushu) engaged in league championship participated in the study. Athletes completed the Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling.
Results: The obtained results revealed that resilience has direct and indirect effects on emotional reactions to failure. Furthermore, self-compassion and maladaptive ER play a partial negative mediating role between resilience and emotional reactions to failure. However, the mediating role of adaptive ER was not significant.
Conclusion: The study data predicted negative emotional reactions to failure based on resilience, mediated by self-compassion and ER among martial artists; thus, these data indicate the necessity of paying attention to the development of resilience in martial artists. This method emphasizes self-compassion and the reduction of maladaptive ER for better recovery of failure and reduces its effects.
Keywords
Resilience
Reactions to failure
Self-Compassion
Emotion regulation
Recovery from failure
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Sport Sciences and Health Research
Volume 12, Issue 1
January 2020
Pages 113-124