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Mental Toughness And Athletic Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Dax Mitchell Crum
Mental Toughness And Athletic Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Dax Mitchell Crum
Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs
This investigation employed meta-analysis techniques to examine the relationship between mental toughness and athletic performance. A total of 76 studies were systematically analyzed with 470 correlation coefficients (rxy) calculated to determine the mean effect. Fifty-five subject and study variables (age, gender, sport, psychometric instrument, and theoretical definition, etc.) were coded for each correlation to assess changes in the magnitude according to these key characteristics noted within the literature. Overall, the total average correlation produced a small effect size of rxy =.218. However, the effect size varied significantly depending on the definition, measurement, quality of the investigation, …