Athletes with disability in the light of positive psychology

Sikorska, Iwona; Gerc, Krzysztof

doi:10.29359/bjhpa.10.1.07

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“…We also found a high value for resilience. This data reinforces the literature that states athletes with disabilities show significant levels of resilience [ 42 , 43 , 44 , 86 ]. Hariharan et al [ 89 ] found that resilient people with disabilities had higher emotional intelligence and more positive perceptions of their environment.…”

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Tokyo 2020: A Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Characterization of the Portuguese Paralympic Team

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The importance of practicing sports and its impact on the quality of life of people with disabilities is fundamental. Characterizing subjective well-being, resilience, and social influence in the practice of adapted sports, namely in those who participate in elite sport in Portugal, is truly important to support a set of initiatives to promote higher levels of practice. Thus, this study describes the Portuguese delegation at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games through sociodemographic and psychosocial (positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, resilience, and social support) variables. The study involved 31 of the 33 athletes of the Portuguese Paralympic team aged between 15 and 58 years (34.45 ± 11.7 years), with 21 men and 10 women. Individual-level sociodemographic data gave us a clear insight into the reality of adapted sport in Portugal. The high values of life satisfaction, high positive affect and low negative affect, as well as high levels of resilience and social support seem to be important variables for these athletes. The data from the present study highlighted the importance of understanding the characteristics of Paralympic athletes, in order to better understand the reality of Paralympic sport in Portugal.

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“…Participation in sports by people with disabilities has implications for resilience, access to social support, opportunities, and meaningful social experiences for people who faced traumatic injuries [ 42 ]. Athletes with disabilities show significant levels of resilience [ 42 , 43 , 44 ].…”

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“…Although physically disabled athletes have diverse disabilities in trunks/limbs, they engage in diverse competitive sports such as basketball, goalball, rugby, athletics, archery, shooting, powerlifting, and many others ( IPC, 2021 ). Research suggests that engaging in competitive sports is beneficial to physically disabled athletes’ cognitive function ( Di Russo et al, 2010 ), resilience and courage ( Sikorska & Gerc, 2018 ), self-esteem ( Van de Vliet, Van Biesen & Vanlandewijck, 2008 ), and social function ( Smith, Bundon & Best, 2016 ).…”

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Pre-competition mental energy and performance relationships among physically disabled table tennis players

Chuang

Gill

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Energy is essential to human daily functioning and performance. However, the association of mental energy with athletes’ performance has rarely been examined. We attempted to examine the pre-competition mental energy–performance relationships by two studies. Study 1 administered Athletic Mental Energy Scale (AMES, Lu et al., 2018) to nine elite physically-disabled table tennis players one day before competition in 5 international tournaments. Then, we collected their subjective performance after each competition. In Study 2, we sampled 77 National-level physically-disabled table tennis players and examined the pre-competition mental energy-performance relationship as the procedure in Study 1. Results from Study 1 provided initial findings of how pre-competition mental energy is associated with performance and portrayed in elite physically-disabled table tennis players. Results from Study 2 further confirmed the pre-competition mental energy- performance relationships. We suggested future studies to examine the mental energy–performance relationships in physically-disabled and abled athletes and different sports.

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“…Personality and self-control can be mediated with self-efficacy (Sikorska and Gerc, 2018). When considering the self-efficacy and selfregulation theories of Badura, a claim could be made that self-control affects self-efficacy and there exists a significant positive correlation between the two (Bandura, 1978).…”

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Analysis of Polymorphic Variants of the Dopamine Transporter (DAT1) Gene Polymorphism and Personality Traits Among Athletes

Michałowska–Sawczyn

Lachowicz

Grzywacz

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Journal of Human Kinetics

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Personality traits, especially in sport are modulatory factors of athletes’ behavior – his/ her conscientiousness, the will to achieve an aim, perseverance and motivation of activity. Not only are biological predispositions related to anatomical or biochemical traits of success, but they are also largely determined by personality traits that result from genetic factors. In our research we joined tests of athlete’s personality in correlation with genotypes of the dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene polymorphism. The selection of this polymorphism was based on previous reports connecting the influence of dopamine with motivation and numerous arguments supporting its correlation with human behavior. We observed significant differences among polymorphisms DAT 9/9, 9/10, 10/10 in terms of proportion of particular genotypes between athletes and the control group. We also found significant differences in the NEO FFI sten scale for conscientiousness. We noticed that anxiety was related with genotypic variants of DAT1, specifically the 9/10 VNTR variant, which conditioned lower levels of anxiety in the group of tested athletes. By contrast, the lower sten value of agreeability was statistically significant for the group of athletes that were carriers of the 10/10 VNTR genotype. Heterozygous 9/10 VNTR among athletes showed lower levels of anxiety in comparison with the control group, whereas agreeability determined using the NEO FFI scale represented a lower value among athletes that had the 10/10 polymorphism. We may thus conclude that the presence of polymorphic variants of the dopamine transporter gene corresponds to athletes’ personality traits.

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Athletes with disability in the light of positive psychology

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Tokyo 2020: A Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Characterization of the Portuguese Paralympic Team

Tokyo 2020: A Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Characterization of the Portuguese Paralympic Team

Pre-competition mental energy and performance relationships among physically disabled table tennis players

Analysis of Polymorphic Variants of the Dopamine Transporter (DAT1) Gene Polymorphism and Personality Traits Among Athletes

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