Mental toughness and hardiness at different levels of rugby league

By J. Golby, M. Sheard. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Lee Crust
2. K. Azadi
3. Peter J. Clough
4. A. Nicholls
5. J. Golby
6. M. Sheard
7. Remco Polman
8. Andrew R. Levy

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. K. Azadi
2. Lee Crust
3. A. Nicholls
4. M. Sheard
5. J. Golby
6. Peter J. Clough
7. Andrew R. Levy
8. Remco Polman

Citations in the corpus

• Mental toughness and athletes' use of psychological strategies (2010, methodology): “For example, Golby and colleagues (Golby & Sheard, 2004 ; Golby, Sheard, & Lavallee, 2003 ; Sheard & Golby, 2006 ) used the Psychological Performance Inventory (PPI: Loehr, 1986 ) as a measure of mental toughness.”
• The influence of short-term adventure-based experiences on levels of resilience (2011, background): “The literature is consistent in suggesting that resilience is related to other psychological phenomena such as hardiness (Bartone, 1999 ; Golby & Sheard, 2004 ), and mental toughness (Clough, Earle, & Sewell, 2002 ; Loehr, 1986 ).”
• Psychological Hardiness Predicts Adaptability in Military Leaders: A prospective study (2013, unknown): “…of health (Beehr & Bowling, 2005; Contrada, 1989; Hystad, Eid, Laberg, Johnsen & Bartone, 2009; Kobasa et al., 1982; Waysman, Schwarzwald, & Solomon, 2001) and performance (Bartone et al., 2009; Golby & Sheard, 2004; Hanton, Evans, & Neil, 2003; Johnsen, Eid, Pallesen, Bartone, & Nissestad, 2009).”
• The Efficacy of an Outdoor Adventure Education Curriculum on Selected Aspects of Positive Psychological Development (2006, unknown): “Previous research not related to OAE has demonstrated the benefits of high levels of hardiness for many different categories of people, including business managers (Maddi, Kahn, & Maddi, 1998), military personnel (Bartone, 1999), and sportspeople (Golby & Sheard, 2004).”
• Mental toughness: Managerial and age differences (2009, background): “Sheard, 2004; Golby et al., 2003). Not withstanding the increased interest in mental toughness, the construct is still not well understood and there is no widely accepted definition (Nicholls et al., 2008a,b). The recent sport psychology literature supports the notion that mental toughness is not a ”
• Relations of resilience and hardiness with sport achievement and mental health in a sample of athletes (2010, background): “In the field of sport psychology few studies have done, examining the effect of hardiness on sport performance (e.g., Maddi & Hess, 1992; Golby & Sheard, 2004).”
• Mental Qualities and Employed Mental Techniques of Young Elite Team Sport Athletes (2010, result): “In support of these findings, numerous studies have been able to distinguish elite from nonelite performers by the quantity and quality of such attributes (e.g., Golby & Sheard, 2004; Orlick & Partington, 1988).”
• Progress Toward Construct Validation of the Sports Mental Toughness Questionnaire (SMTQ) (2009, background): “When confronting a challenge, individuals high in optimism, hardiness, and positive affectivity tend to approach it with confidence and persistence (Golby & Sheard, 2004;”
• Mental toughness, optimism, pessimism, and coping among athletes (2008, background): “Mental toughness has recently been suggested to be an important characteristic for athletic success (Golby & Sheard, 2004; Loehr, 1986), and yet it remains one of the least understood terms in sport psychology (Jones, Hanton, & Connaughton, 2002).”
• Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences (2009, background): “A study by Golby and Sheard (2004) examined MT among a sample of 115 male rugby league players of international, Super League, and Division 1 standard.”
• Effect of a psychological skills training program on swimming performance and positive psychological development (2006, methodology): “…Snyder & Lopez, 2005) Further, because research has demonstrated positive relationships between superior sport performance and, for example, mental toughness (e g , Golby & Sheard, 2004), hardiness (e g , Maddi & Hess, 1992), self-esteem (e g , Aidman & Bekerman, 2001), self-efficacy (e g ,…”