Who's mental? Who's tough and who's both? Mutton constructs dressed up as lamb

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Stressing the relevance of resilience: a systematic review of resilience across the domains of sport and work (2017, background): “Associated terms such as ‘mental toughness’, ‘emotional intelligence’, ‘hardiness’ and ‘grit’ are often used interchangeably with resilience (Andersen, 2011; Galli & Gonzalez, 2015), where both hardiness and grit connote a ‘hardy constitution’, absent of any reflective meta-cognitive appraisals…”
Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect (2017, background): “efforts towards understanding the psychological differentiator that MT represents, early definitions varied in scope and have often been criticized [9, 10].”
‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Premier League Soccer Academy (2014, background): “Critics such as Andersen (2011) highlight the difficulty in constructing a clear conceptualisation due to the mass of positive psychological attributes and characteristics that have been held to describe mental toughness, and the difficulty of unpacking sport jargon.”