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On understanding the role of need thwarting in the association between athlete attachment and well/ill-being

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posted on 2017-09-06, 11:01 authored by Luke Felton, Sophia JowettSophia Jowett
Grounded in attachment theory and basic psychological needs theory, the current study aimed to examine the mediating role of basic psychological need thwarting between perceptions of athlete attachment to the coach and indexes of athlete well/ill-being. A sample of athletes (N=241) participating in various organized sports completed a multisection questionnaire assessing the main study variables. Bootstrap mediation analysis revealed that the perceived psychological needs of thwarted autonomy and competence within the coach relational context mediated the associations between athletes' perceptions of insecure attachments to the coach and experiences of life satisfaction and negative affect. Analysis also revealed that the perceived psychological needs of thwarted competence and relatedness within the sport context mediated the associations between athletes' attachment style and experiences of performance satisfaction, life satisfaction, depression, and negative affect. Overall, the findings of the study highlight that the examination of negative aspects of sport participation may facilitate a more complete understanding of athletes' psychological functioning.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volume

25

Issue

2

Pages

289 - 298

Citation

FELTON, L. and JOWETT, S., 2014. On understanding the role of need thwarting in the association between athlete attachment and well/ill-being. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 25 (2), pp. 289-298.

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© Wiley

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

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This paper is closed access.

ISSN

0905-7188

eISSN

1600-0838

Language

  • en

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