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Developing the mental toughness inventory (MTI) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Earlier qualitative research defined mental toughness as an unshakeable perseverance and conviction towards some goal despite pressure or adversity (Middleton, Marsh, Martin, Richards & Perry, in press, 2004).
Richards, Garry E.   +4 more
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing mental toughness in upper school-aged male children within sports school setting: An experimental study

open access: yesActa Psychologica
The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of a program to enhance mental toughness in upper school-aged male children within sports school setting.
Romualdas Malinauskas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching Enjoyment and Vitality as Mediators of Cognitive Flexibility and Reflective Teaching in EFL Teachers: A Mixed‐Methods Serial Mediation Analysis

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Reflective teaching (RT) is influenced by a range of cognitive, pedagogical, and psycho‐affective factors in second/foreign language (L2) education. However, empirical evidence on the influence of psycho‐affective variables on teachers' reflectivity remains limited.
Lili Qin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental toughness in soccer:A behavioral analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the past decade mental toughness has been discussed as a significant factor in performance in elite sport. Few studies have explored mental toughness from a behavioral perspective, and no comprehensive lists of mental toughness behaviors have been ...
Diment, Gregory Michael
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The relationship between mental toughness and rumination in athletes

open access: yesPhysical Education of Students
Background and Study Aim. Rumination, defined as repetitive and persistent negative thinking, can negatively affect athletes’ performance and psychological well-being.
Berk Hakan Yılmaz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a test for mental toughness : the Mental Toughness Inventory (MTI) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Earlier qualitative research defined mental toughness as an unshakeable perseverance and conviction towards some goal despite pressure or adversity (Middleton, Marsh, Martin, Richards & Perry, in press, 2004).
Richards, Garry E.   +4 more
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The relationships between role strain, mental toughness and mental health amongst adolescent athletes

open access: yesAdvanced Exercise and Health Science
Objective: Adolescent athletes are required to manage numerous roles to succeed. This study examined the association of role strain and mental health symptomology and the potential mediating role of mental toughness.
Joshua Morrison   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

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