Personal strivings of mentally tough Australian Rules footballers |
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| Institution: | 1. Queensland University of Technology, Australia;2. The University of Queensland, Australia;1. MANIBUS Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy;2. Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;3. NIT, Neuroscience Institute of Turin, Turin, Italy;1. Université de Toulon, LAMHESS, EA 6312, Toulon, France;2. Université Côte d''Azur, LAMHESS, EA 6312, Nice, France;3. Université de Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, L-Vis, EA 7428, Lyon, France;4. Université de Caen, CIRNEF, EA 965, Caen, France;1. Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Solent University Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom;2. Department of Science, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom;3. School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom;1. Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy;2. Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, Foro Italico University of Rome, Rome, Italy;3. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples \"Federico II\", Naples, Italy;1. German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany;2. Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA |
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| Abstract: | The current study examined the personal strivings of mentally tough Australian Rules footballers. Data collection occurred in two phases. Phase one included conducting two focus groups with coaches and performance staff from an Australian Football League (AFL) club/franchise, to gain a culturally-specific mental toughness (MT) conceptualisation. This conceptualisation was used to identify mentally tough footballers (n = 7) from the club’s playing group. In phase two, the selected footballers completed a personal goal strivings exercise (e.g., listing strivings, rating their commitment to them), which was subsequently coded for general and motivational themes, through nomothetic and idiographic lenses. Nomothetic analysis revealed broad trends consistent with previous MT research. Key themes included a high commitment to goals, high confidence, and achievement orientation. Focusing on four specific players, an idiographic analysis revealed different motivational agendas, including characteristically mentally tough motives, narcissistic motives, communion and growth motives, and vulnerable/anxious motives. In conclusion, despite broad themes aligning with current perspectives of MT, on an individual level, mentally tough athletes’ motivational concerns may vary. These findings stress the potential importance of examining goals as a central construct in conceptualising MT. Moreover, they challenge a universal assumption that MT operates in the same way across all performers, highlighting the need for greater idiographic analysis in MT research. |
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| Keywords: | Mental toughness Goals Personality Nomothetic Idiographic Motivation |
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