Title: Identity and anxiety in athletes

Masten, Robert; Tusak, Maks; Tušak, Matej

doi:10.1037/e548052012-583

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“…Athletic identity has been integrally tied to the risk of possible psychological distress when faced with injury (Brewer, 1993;Webb, Nasco, Riley, & Headrick, 1998), sport disengagement (Erpic, Wylleman, & Zupancic, 2004;Grove, Lavallee, & Gordon, 1997;Pearson & Petitpas, 1990), delayed career development (Murphy, Petitpas, & Brewer, 1996), burnout (Raedeke, 1997), and more recently to anxiety (Masten, Tusak, & Faganel, 2006). In the development of appropriate interventions for athletes faced with these issues, it is important that sport psychology practitioners, researchers, and other athlete support staff have rapid, reliable, and valid measures that aid in the assessment of important psychological constructs such as athletic identity.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Evaluation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale

Visek

Hurst

Maxwell

et al. 2008

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Evaluation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale

Visek

Hurst

Maxwell

et al. 2008

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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“…Athletic identity has also been examined in relation to sport anxiety. Masten and colleagues (Masten, Tušak, & Faganel, 2006) administered surveys to 410 Slovene athletes from various competition levels to measure their athletic identity (AIMS) and their levels of trait and state anxiety (STAI-X1 STAI-X2: Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970). The researchers found athletes who were classified as "World Class" had higher levels of both state and trait anxiety than did athletes who were classified in the lower divisions of sport.…”

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The Role of Athletic Identity and Passion in Predicting Burnout in Adolescent Female Athletes

Martin

Horn²

2013

The Sport Psychologist

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The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescent athletes' levels of sport burnout would be correlated with, or predicted by, their level and type of passion and the degree to which they identify with the athlete role. Measures for burnout, passion and athletic identity were completed by 218 high school female athletes attending summer camps. Two significant canonical functions explained the relationship of the variables. In the first canonical function, high levels of harmonious passion combined with high levels of social identity were predictive of lower levels of burnout on all three dimensions of burnout. In the second canonical function, high scores on obsessive passion combined with high scores on all three subscales of the AIMS were predictive of higher scores on the exhaustion dimension of burnout but lower levels of sport devaluation. Future directions and limitations of the study are also discussed.

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“…However, an overemphasis on athletic identity may lead to negative outcomes as stated earlier. Studies have stated that a reduction in the opportunity to participate in sports harms the mental health of athletes and their athletic identity levels (Masten et al, 2006 ; Miller and Hoffman, 2009 ). Consequently, when an athlete is not regularly allowed to express himself/herself, there is a high tendency for that athlete to experience a reduced athletic identity (Fraser-Thomas et al, 2008 ; Altintaş and Kelecek, 2017 ).…”

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Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Athletes

Uroh

Adewunmi

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This study explored the influence of athletic identity and sports participation on the psychological well-being of athletes during a pandemic. The objective of the study was to understand the psychological impact of the coronavirus lockdown measure on athletes who were not able to carry out their normal daily routine. Athletes from nine different sports completed an online survey during the sixth week of the total lockdown in Nigeria. The online survey consists of an athletic identity scale and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). Data collected were analyzed using Multiple regression and the Mann-Whitney test at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings revealed that category of sports (individual and team) (M = 0.73, β = −6.116) and athletic identity (M = 59.16, β = −0.166) predicts psychological distress to some degree. Few individual sports athletes and athletes with low athletic identity are prone to higher levels of psychological distress than team sports athletes and athletes with high athletic identity during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Individual sports athletes reported elevated levels of psychological distress compared to team sports athletes (z = −2.186, p = 0.03, r = 0.27). In conclusion, the results have confirmed that some athletes competing in individual sports experience elevated levels of psychological distress during the coronavirus pandemic, therefore they need the support of a sports psychologist during such periods to help in maintaining their psychological well-being.

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Title: Identity and anxiety in athletes

Cited by 20 publications

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A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Evaluation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale

A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Evaluation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale

The Role of Athletic Identity and Passion in Predicting Burnout in Adolescent Female Athletes

Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Athletes

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