Mental toughness, optimism, pessimism, and coping among athletes

By A. Nicholls, Remco Polman, Andrew R. Levy, S. Backhouse. 2008

360 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Lee Crust
2. K. Azadi
3. Remco Polman
4. Peter J. Clough
5. Andrew R. Levy
6. A. Nicholls
7. Mustafa Sarkar
8. D. Fletcher

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. K. Azadi
2. Lee Crust
3. Peter J. Clough
4. A. Nicholls
5. Andrew R. Levy
6. Remco Polman
7. S. Backhouse
8. R. Cowden

Citations in the corpus

• Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “Numerous qualitative and quantitative studies have identified social support as crucial to the development of mental toughness (Connaughton, Wadey et al., 2008; Nicholls et al., 2008; Thelwell et al. 2010).”
• Mental toughness and athletes' use of psychological strategies (2010, methodology): “The MTQ48 has an overall test retest coefficient of 0.9, and previous studies have reported high alpha coefficients for the instrument (Nicholls et al., 2008).”
• Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences (2009, background): “Future research could track athletes longitudinally in order to examine how MT, or how components of MT changes, both inter- and intra-individually (Nicholls et al., 2008) or assess perceptions of MT from significant others such as coach and peer player ratings in order to capture more accurate…”