Bøger af Brian Joseph Foster

Participation in elite level sport requires being subjected to considerably stressful trainingand competition environments. Psychological skills and mindfulness have been demonstrated toenhance performance in sport, but less is known regarding how they impact an athlete's well-being in their sport and in their life. Greater knowledge of this relationship would aidpractitioners in developing holistic, more psychologically well-adjusted student-athletes. Tomeet this end, 222 current NCAA Division I fall and winter sport athletes representing sixdifferent sports completed the Mental Health Continuum -Short Form (Keyes et al., 2008), SportMental Health Continuum -Short Form (Foster & Chow, 2016), Ottawa Mental SkillsAssessment Tool-3 (Durand-Bush et al., 2001), Mindfulness Inventory for Sport (Thienot et al.,2014), and the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (Brewer et al., 1993). Path analysis indicatedthat both psychological skills and mindfulness had significant moderate direct effects on sportwell-being; however, only mindfulness was shown to have a significant moderate direct effect onglobal well-being. Correlational data indicated foundational skills and somatic skills, specificallyself-confidence, relaxation, and activation, to be the most salient psychological skills for sportwell-being and global-well. Nonjudgmental acceptance was the most salient mindfulness skill, asit had a moderate causal path to sport well-being and a strong causal path to global well-being.The practical implications of the findings include evidence for the importance of developingthese skills in college athletes to enhance their sport well-being and global well-being.