Towards an Understanding of Mental Toughness in Elite English Cricketers

By S. Bull, C. Shambrook, Wil James, J. Brooks. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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

In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. K. Azadi
2. Lee Crust
3. S. Hanton
4. D. Gucciardi
5. J. Dimmock
6. S. Gordon
7. Joanne Butt
8. Graham R. Jones

In Social Psychology

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

Citations in the corpus

• The Development and Maintenance of Mental Toughness in the World’s Best Performers (2010, background): “Within the area of mental toughness, Bull et al. (2005) was the first study to highlight factors perceived to influence its development. They focused on cricket and categorized global themes under 4 locations relating to environment, character, attitudes, and thinking. The category locations were su”
• Evaluation of a Mental Toughness Training Program for Youth-Aged Australian Footballers: I. A Quantitative Analysis (2009, background): “, Golby & Sheard, 2006), factors that are caught (socialized) during an individual’s upbringing, and specific techniques that are taught (coached; Bull et al., 2005; Connaughton, Wadey et al., 2008).”
• Mental toughness, optimism, pessimism, and coping among athletes (2008, background): “, 2005) and tough thinking (Bull et al., 2005). Given the adaptive applied implications of being mentally tough it is essential that researchers pursue sound psychometric measurement of this construct. To date, two measures have been postulated to examine mental toughness. First, Loehr (1986) develo”
• Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences (2009, result): “This finding would support the notion that MT is a personality trait that does not vary from situation to situation, as suggested by Bull et al. (2005). A limitation of the present study is the potential for social desirability in the reporting of MT, which could have influenced findings.”
• A framework of mental toughness in the world's best performers. (2007, methodology): “Minor variation was found with Jones et al.’s (2002) definition and attributes of mental toughness in comparison with specific team-sports investigations (i.e., Bull et al., 2005; Thelwell et al., 2005).”
• Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect (2017, background): “The MT-performance link has roots in early studies that retrospectively sampled elite and super-elite performers, such as past Olympic champions and athletes labelled as “mentally toughest” during their tenure as international performers [2, 24].”
• Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “Mentally tough athletes have been found (Bull et al., 2005) to be highly competitive in terms of continued self-improvement (task-mastery) as well as wanting to be better than rivals (outcome orientation).”
• Advancing mental toughness research and theory using personal construct psychology (2009, methodology): “Despite providing an intuitively appealing conceptualization, which itself was not grounded in the empirical data but rather for its use in disseminating the findings, Bull et al.’s interpretation of the data was largely descriptive and lacked any detailed analysis. Established theory, for example, ”
• ‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Premier League Soccer Academy (2014, methodology): “Consistent with Bull et al. (2005) and Coulter et al. (2010), young players’ exposure to the qualities shown by first-team players and other senior professionals was reported to be a powerful opportunity to learn.”
• Mental toughness and athletes' use of psychological strategies (2010, background): “…(comprising cognitive, affective, and behavioural components) and an important psychological construct that is related to successful sport performance (Bull et al., 2005; Clough, Earle, & Sewell, 2002; Connaughton, Wadey, Hanton, & Jones, 2008; Crust & Clough, 2005; Jones et al., 2007).”
• Factors Underpinning Football Officiating Excellence: Perceptions of English Premier League Referees (2013, background): “With mentally tough performers cited as being able to cope effectively with performance-related pressures (Bull et al., 2005; Jones et al., 2002), it was not a surprise that one mental toughness attribute emerged relating to coping with pressure (e.g., coping with match-day pressures, consistent…”
• Mental toughness in sport: A review (2007, background): “…soccer players claimed their mental toughness developed from experiences and varying environments during their formative years (Thelwell et al , 2005) Bull et al (2005) stressed the many idiosyncrasies that are evident in how individuals develop mental toughness mental toughness and…”