The relationship of basic need satisfaction, motivational climate and personality to well-being and stress patterns among elite athletes: An explorative study

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Motivation and Emotion. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Lundqvist, C., Raglin, J. (2015) The relationship of basic need satisfaction, motivational climate and personality to well-being and stress patterns among elite athletes: An explorative study. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Carolina Lundqvist, The Motivation and Emotion AbstractThis study investigated whether need satisfaction, need dissatisfaction, motivational climate, perfectionism and self-esteem relate to athletes' discrete profiles of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being and perceived stress. Participants were 103 elite active orienteers (49 men and 54 women; mean age = 22.3 ± 4.4) who clustered into three distinctive well-being and stress patterns: Cluster 1 (lower well-being/higher stress; n = 26), Cluster 2 (higher wellbeing/lower stress; n = 39), and Cluster 3 (moderate well-being/moderate stress; n = 36).Cluster 1 and 2 constituted distinct well-being/stress profiles and differed significantly (p < .01) in mastery-oriented climate, need satisfaction, need dissatisfaction, perfectionistic concerns and self-esteem scores. A discriminant analysis showed these five variables to correctly assign 88% of Cluster 1 and 2 participants into their respective groups, although masteryoriented climate was revealed as a less influential indicator (function loading <.40). The substantial function loading of need dissatisfaction supports the importance of assessing both need satisfaction and dissatisfaction as they contribute uniquely to well-being.

The Mental Health of Elite Athletes: A Narrative Systematic Review

“…Tables 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 provide a summary of the key characteristics and main outcomes of the 60 included studies. For the purposes of reporting and analysis, studies were grouped according to the following major mental health constructs: anger and aggression ( N = 2) [ 29 , 30 ], anxiety ( N = 4) [ 31 – 34 ], eating disorder and body image ( N = 10) [ 21 , 35 – 43 ], general-prevalence studies ( N = 10) [ 23 , 44 – 52 ], help seeking ( N = 1) [ 11 ], sleep ( N = 1) [ 53 ], stress and coping ( N = 22) [ 64 – 86 ], substance use ( N = 9) [ 54 – 62 ] and wellbeing ( N = 1) [ 63 ]. The included studies examined athletes from a broad range of individual sports (e.g.…”

A review of competitive sport motivation research

“…The 16 remaining studies (see Table 8 for a brief methodological summary, and Supplementary Table 7 for full details) investigated some aspect of motivation in relation to stress/distress and wellbeing (Lundqvist & Raglin, 2014;Pensgaard & Roberts, 2000), self-handicapping (Kuczka & Treasure, 2005), an intervention (Cook & Crewther, 2012;Mellalieu et al, 2009), antisocial/prosocial behaviour (Hodge & Gucciardi, 2015), narcissism (Roberts, Woodman, Lofthouse, & Williams, 2015), music (Laukka & Quick, 2013), hormonal concentrations (Cook et al, 2013), exercise dependence (Hamer & Vlachopoulos, 2002), coping (Ntoumanis, Biddle, & Haddock, 1999), gambling (Curry & Jiobu, 1995), and social behaviour (Hodge & Gucciardi, 2015). Furthermore, three studies examined the motivation of coaches (Alcaraz, Viladrich, Torregrosa, Ramis, & Gillham, 2015;Leidl, 2009;McLean & Mallett, 2012).…”

Antecedents of Exercise Dependence in Ultra-Endurance Sports: Reduced Basic Need Satisfaction and Avoidance-Motivated Self-Control

“…Several studies in different domains of life have confirmed the theoretical assumption that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (e.g., through environments that support those needs) has positive consequences. Basic need satisfaction, for example, leads to emotional well-being ( Parfitt et al, 2000 ; Edmunds et al, 2007 ; Aldrup et al, 2017 ) and motivation ( Wilson et al, 2007 ; Devloo et al, 2015 ) in sports (further examples of the application of basic need theory in sports: Mullan et al, 1997 ; Pelletier and Sarrazin, 2007 ; Vallerand, 2007 ; Lundqvist and Raglin, 2015 ; see Hagger and Chatzisarantis, 2007 , for a summary).…”