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Jones, Martin I. and Parker, John K (2019) An Analysis of the Size and Direction of the Association between Mental Toughness and Olympic Distance Personal Best Triathlon Times. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 8 (1). pp. 71-76. doi:10.1016/j.jshs.2017.05.005
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Abstract
Athletes, coaches, sport psychology practitioners, and researchers suggest that mental toughness represents an important construct that is associated with athletic performance. Unfortunately, the absence of real-world performance as a dependent variable has limited our ability to substantiate this claim. The concern of a lack of ecologically valid measures of sports performance might be addressed by examining the relationship between mental toughness and sports performance using a standardized measure of personal best (PB) triathlon time and a validated unidimensional measure of mental toughness. Three hundred and sixteen triathletes completed the 8-item mental toughness index (MTI), reported their age, and provided a PB Olympic distance triathlon time and the total number of triathlons they had completed to date. Given that males are typically quicker than females, a standardized time was calculated by dividing the PB by the current Olympic record for gender; we also hypothesized that more experienced triathletes would report quicker PB times because of greater frequency and duration of training. Once we had controlled for gender and experience, we predicted that mental toughness would be negatively associated with triathlon time and the size of the relationship would be of a moderate magnitude. Results revealed small to moderate sized negative relationships between both completed number of triathlons and mental toughness with standardized PB time. The hierarchical regression analysis showed that mental toughness provided a unique contribution to the variability in standardized Olympic triathlon PB after controlling for the total number of triathlons completed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Performance; Olympic distance triathlon; Endurance sport; Factorial validity; Mental toughness; Personal best times |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports > GV1040 Cycling. Bicycling. Motorcycling G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports > GV1060 Track and field athletics |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Research Priority Areas: | Health, Life Sciences, Sport and Wellbeing |
| Depositing User: | Susan Turner |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2017 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 09:08 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/4626 |
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