A relação entre o criticismo do treinador e a ansiedade dos atletas: O papel do mindfulness e do autojulgamento

Abstract

Background and Aim: The sample included 184 adolescent athletes (150 boys and 34 girls), aged between 12 and 18 years old, who completed a protocol of self-report instruments assessing sports anxiety (SAS-2), the perception of coach’s critical attitudes (APoCCAS), mindfulness (CAMM) and self-compassion (SCS). Method: The sample included 184 adolescent athletes (150 boys and 34 girls), aged between 12 and 18 years old, who completed a protocol of self-report instruments assessing sports anxiety (SAS-2), the perception of coach’s critical attitudes (APoCCAS), mindfulness (CAMM) and self-compassion (SCS). Results: Sports anxiety showed a positive association with critical coach attitudes and self-judgment and a negative association with mindfulness. Mindfulness revealed a negative association with self-judgment and the athletes’ perception of the coach’s critical attitudes. Self-judgment was positively associated with the athletes’ perception of the coach’s critical attitudes. The regression model explained 45% of the variance in sports anxiety, with mindfulness and self-judgment being the only predictors. Path analysis results indicated that the athlete’s mindfulness and self-judgment fully mediated the effect of the athletes’ perception of the coach’s critical attitudes on sports anxiety. Conclusions: Results suggest that athletes who perceive more critical attitudes from the coach, who have more self-judgmental attitudes, and fewer mindfulness skills tend to have higher levels of sports anxiety. The present study is innovative in showing how these variables are associated, suggesting that the development of mindfulness skills and the reduction of self-judgmental attitudes can help decrease the impact of the coach’s critical attitudes on competitive anxiety.

What could explain the psychological well-being and performance of young athletes? The role of social safeness and self-criticism

“…Well-being and mental health are a key component of the development and performance of athletes (Schinke et al, 2018). In fact, athletes' mental health and well-being has received increased attention in the sports community (Chang et al, 2020;Giles et al, 2020;Oliveira et al, 2022;Rice et al, 2016), and literature has highlighted that it is important to explore factors that may influence their mental health, well-being and performance (Poucher et al, 2019;Walton et al, 2019, especially in young athletes (Gama et al, 2021;Swan et al, 2018). When it comes to the psychological benefits of sports involvement, athletes often gain a variety of psychological abilities that contribute to increased self-esteem, motivation, and resilience, which assist not only their performance but also other aspects of their lives (Weinberg & Gould, 2019).…”