Motivational Processes Associated with Mental Toughness Among College Skiers.

Xinran Wu, Yuhao Cai, Nor Eeza Zainal Abidin, Rafidah Aga Mohd Jaladin

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xinran WuDepartment of Physical Education, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.

Yuhao CaiDepartment of Physical Education, School of General Education, Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510540, China.

Nor Eeza Zainal AbidinFaculty of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.

Rafidah Aga Mohd JaladinDepartment of Educational Psychology and Counseling, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-3124-9736

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Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau GDSS2024N068

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Abstract

This study examined the relationships between motivational processes and mental toughness in college skiers based on the self-determination theory (SDT). A total of 332 participants from four skiing items completed four psychological scales assessing motivational factors and mental toughness. The findings revealed that a task-involving climate is positively associated with basic psychological needs, eliciting a positive pathway to autonomous motivation and controlled motivation, thereby positively affecting mental toughness. In contrast, an ego-involving climate is negatively associated with basic psychological needs, eliciting a negative pathway to amotivation, thus negatively affecting mental toughness. The findings highlight the complex interplay between a series of motivational factors and athletes' mental toughness, underscoring the need to integrate mental-toughness-related factors into the motivational framework.

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basic psychological needsmental toughnessmotivationmotivational climateskiing

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PMID40426388

DOI10.3390/bs15050610

PMCPMC12108816

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