What Is This Thing Called Mental Toughness? An Investigation of Elite Sport Performers

By Graham R. Jones, S. Hanton, Declan Connaughton. 2002

832 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Lee Crust
2. S. Hanton
3. K. Azadi
4. D. Gucciardi
5. J. Dimmock
6. S. Gordon
7. Peter J. Clough
8. R. Cowden

In Gender Studies

1. S. Hanton
2. Lee Crust
3. D. Gucciardi
4. J. Dimmock
5. S. Gordon
6. Graham R. Jones
7. Declan Connaughton
8. M. Sheard

In Social Psychology

1. Lee Crust
2. S. Hanton
3. D. Gucciardi
4. J. Dimmock
5. S. Gordon
6. K. Azadi
7. R. Cowden
8. Peter J. Clough

Citations in the corpus

• Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect (2017, background): “Collectively, these findings support the commonly held belief that mentally tougher athletes tend to be more successful [2, 39, 45].”
• The Development and Maintenance of Mental Toughness in the World’s Best Performers (2010, methodology): “In fact, Jones et al.’s (2007) framework was proposed as being valuable for understanding the make-up and development of mental toughness as, “it helps to explain mental toughness .”
• Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “While most researchers have relied upon retrospective interviews of elite athletes to understand mental toughness (i.e., Bull et al., 2005; Jones et al., 2002), others have quantified the construct by developing questionnaires (Sheard, 2010).”
• ‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Premier League Soccer Academy (2014, background): “Furthermore, although mental toughness has been commonly construed as an important resource during confrontations with stress and in times of adversity (Jones et al. 2002), researchers have also found mental toughness as key to sustaining effort and *Corresponding author.”
• Recent developments in competitive anxiety direction and competition stress research (2008, background): “For example, the holistic construct of ‘mental toughness’ and the more specific form of resiliency, ‘hardiness’, have been suggested and found to promote positive and successful cognitions and behavior (see, e.g. Jones et al., 2002, 2007; Maddi, 2002; Hanton et al., 2003a; Thelwell et al., 2005).”
• Towards an Understanding of Mental Toughness in Elite English Cricketers (2005, methodology): “Jones, Hanton, and Connaughton (2002) recently provided an eloquent review of mental toughness and highlighted many of the difficulties associated with research in this area.”
• Sources and Types of Confidence Identified by World Class Sport Performers (2007, background): “In a recent study designed to define and conceptualize the term ‘mental toughness,’ self belief emerged as being the most important attribute of the mentally tough performer ( Jones, Hanton, & Connaughton, 2002 ).”
• Exploring the relationship between effective and reflective practice in applied sport psychology (2010, methodology): “Following procedures advocated by Jones, Hanton, and Connaughton (2002) and Hanton et al. (2007), as an aid to the focus group process, a protocol was developed using the extant literature.”
• Towards an Understanding of Mental Toughness in Australian Football (2008, background): “…Fourie & Potgieter, 2001; Loehr, 1986; Middleton et al., 2004; Thelwell et al., 2005), motivation (Bull et al., 2005; Fourie & Potgieter, 2001; Jones et al., 2002; Middleton et al., 2004), tough attitude (Bull et al., 2005; Fourie & Potgieter, 2001; Gould et al., 2002; Middleton et al., 2004;…”
• A re-examination of choking in sport (2009, background): “, 2002 , 2007 ), which mirror all of the individual differences identified within this study as moderators of choking.”
• Effect of a psychological skills training program on swimming performance and positive psychological development (2006, background): “167 Kalinowski, A G (1985) The development of Olympic swimmers In B S Bloom (Ed ), Developing talent in young people (pp 139-192) New York: Ballantine Kazemi, R M , Khaberi, M , & Farokhi, A (2003, November) The effect of mental training on the performance of elite gymnasts In Y L Hanin (Chair), Ora”
• Mental toughness: Managerial and age differences (2009, methodology): “Based on qualitative research in sport, Jones et al. (2002)”
• Mental toughness, optimism, pessimism, and coping among athletes (2008, background): “…characteristics have been investigated in athletes from a variety of sports (e.g., Fourie & Potgieter, 2001; Jones, Hanton, & Connaughton, 2007; Jones et al., 2002) and specific sports like cricket (e.g., Bull, Shambrook, James, & Brooks, 2005), and soccer (e.g., Thellwell, Weston, &…”