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Impact Of Mental Toughness Training On Psychological And Physical Predictors Of Illness And Injury, Aisha Visram
Impact Of Mental Toughness Training On Psychological And Physical Predictors Of Illness And Injury, Aisha Visram
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Intense training for prolonged periods of time without adequate recovery can result in psychological problems and increased susceptibility to illness and injury in collegiate athletes. The Cognitive-Affective Model of Athletic Burnout (Smith, 1986), a framework for understanding the relationships among stressors, identifies cognitive appraisal as the mediating factor between negative or positive health outcomes, and therefore could be a target of interventions to reduce overtraining, burnout, injury, and illness. Mental toughness, the ability to perform at one’s best regardless of the circumstances, is a modifiable psychological construct that may influence cognitive appraisal. Altering an athlete’s interpretation of stressful situations through …