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Beyond the game: The power of positive psychology in sport

In the world of elite sports, the focus has traditionally been on performance metrics, rigorous training regimens, and strategies for winning. But what if the secret to sustained success lies not just in physical prowess, but in the mind? Enter positive psychology, a field that seeks to unlock human potential by fostering mental resilience, well-being,…

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Mental Skills

Executive summary of the Gold Medal Profile for Sport Psychology
January 24, 2024
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Natalie Durand-Bush
Overview To achieve excellence, athletes must dedicate themselves not only to honing their physical fitness, but also to mastering the intricacies of their psychological skills. While extensive research has probed into the psychological attributes, states, and competencies of elite athletes,...
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Community Sport
Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Sport Participation Research Initiative
Mental Skills
Sport Participation Research Initiative

“Keep trying, it took me a while to get that too!” The effects of peer feedback on relation-inferred self-efficacy (RISE), self-efficacy, and motivation in youth sport
September 18, 2023
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Jeffrey Graham
Project Summary  Peer influences are among the strongest social influences of children’s attitudes and behaviours at early ages. Yet, despite the potential for peer influences to change behaviour, few studies have investigated the role of peer influences on children’s thoughts...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Mental Health
Mental Skills
Physical Health

Self-Compassion in Sport 101
January 11, 2021
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Nathan Reis, Kent Kowalski, Amber Mosewich, and Leah Ferguson
If you have been involved in the coaching or administrative side of competitive sport, chances are you have seen athletes experience emotionally difficult setbacks. These setbacks can range from devastating performance failures (e.g., “choking” during an important competition), to facing...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
Mental Skills

“If it Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix it:” Managing Subgroups in Sport
November 24, 2020
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Curtis Smith, Student, Queen's University
This blog is the final installment in a series in collaboration with Queen’s University. As an assignment to build knowledge mobilization skills, Dr. Luc Martin, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, tasked students in his third year team...
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COVID-19
Mental Health
Mental Skills
Physical Health

Mind over COVID? Mental health tips for coaches, athletes, and sport administrators
November 10, 2020
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Chantale Lussier, Mental Performance Consultant
During epidemics, the number of people whose mental health is affected tends to be greater than the number of people affected by the infection. Past tragedies have shown that the mental health implications can last longer and have greater prevalence...
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Athlete Development
Coaching
High Performance
Mental Skills

Want to Win? Focus on Communication
September 2, 2020
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Andie MacPherson, Student, Queen's University
This blog is the third installment in a series in collaboration with Queen’s University. As an assignment to build knowledge mobilization skills, Dr. Luc Martin, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, tasked students in his third year team...
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Mental Skills
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Finish… whatever it takes: Considering pain and pleasure in the Ironman Triathlon (a socio-cultural analysis)
June 8, 2020
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William Bridel
Project Summary Stemming from my own involvement in Ironman triathlons, I became interested in ideas of pain and pleasure as social constructs. How might ideas about these things in the Ironman context relate to ideas about pain and pleasure circulating...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Life Skills
Mental Skills
SCRI Conference
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Phsychological skills and factors related to ice hockey officials’ coping and performance
May 18, 2020
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Kim Dorsch
Project Summary Research focusing on the development of psychological skills in sport, has been conducted primarily with athletes and coaches. However, we know little on how to assist officials to enhance their performance. Thus, the general objective of this research...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Life Skills
Mental Skills
SCRI Conference
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Understanding adolescents’ positive and negative developmental experiences in sport
May 11, 2020
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Jessica Fraser-Thomas
Project Summary Currently, there is considerable public concern about youths’ healthy physical and psychosocial development. As such, researchers in both developmental and sport psychology highlight a need to better understand how organized sporting activities may be contributing to youths’ positive...
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Children and Youth
Health and Wellbeing
Mental Skills
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Understanding and coping among adolescent athletes
January 27, 2020
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Katherine Tamminen
View the summary of this research here. Project summary Research Objectives: Participation in youth sport is associated with a variety of positive developmental outcomes among adolescents, however studies of recreational and competitive youth sport contexts have revealed stressors which include...
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