Advancing mental toughness research and theory using personal construct psychology

By D. Gucciardi, S. Gordon, J. Dimmock. 2009

176 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Peter J. Clough
2. J. Perry
3. C. Swann
4. P. McCarthy
5. David C. Marchant
6. Joanne Butt
7. R. Cowden
8. M. Nesti

In Social Psychology

1. R. Cowden
2. Lee Crust
3. Peter J. Clough
4. Joanne Butt
5. D. Gucciardi
6. J. Dimmock
7. S. Gordon
8. Brian Culp

Citations in the corpus

• Positive emotion in sport performance: current status and future directions (2011, background): “These attributes, characteristics and behaviours are also related to the multitudinous mental toughness qualities (eg, Connaughton, Hanton, Jones, & Wadey, 2008 ; Crust, 2008 ; Gucciardi, Gordon, & Dimmock, 2009 ) and so deserve greater recognition as this field of research develops.”
• Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect (2017, background): “Given researchers have asserted sport type differences in MT development [46] and the type of MT that each sport emphasizes [47], combining team, individual, contact, and non-contact sports may limit the extent to which competitive standard MT discrepancies are identified within each sport.”
• Coaches' views of mental toughness and how it is built (2011, background): “The idea that mental toughness might be associated with both positive and negative outcomes might help distinguish it from other constructs such as resilience and hardiness (Gucciardi et al., 2009a).”
• ‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Premier League Soccer Academy (2014, background): “In this context, mental toughness has emerged as a key concept related to success in sport (Gucciardi et al. 2009b, Jones et al. 2007).”
• Evaluation of a Mental Toughness Training Program for Youth-Aged Australian Footballers: I. A Quantitative Analysis (2009, background): “Despite previous research showing that mental toughness is related to flow (Gucciardi et al., 2009; Middleton et al., 2004), the data here indicated that both psychological interventions had little effect on the nine flow dimensions, with significant effects observed only for the concentration and c”
• Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students (2015, background): “Gucciardi, Gordon, and Dimmock (2009a) propose MT is a collection of experientially developed and inherent values, attitudes, emotions, and cognitions that influence the way in which an individual approaches, responds to, and appraises both negatively and positively construed pressure, challenge,…”