ArticleEuropean journal of investigation in health, psychology and education2025
Is Mindfulness the Common Ground Between Mental Toughness and Self-Compassion in Student Athletes? A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Resilience in female athletes: a meta-analysis of levels, gender differences, and associations across psychosocial, performance, and health domains.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A pilot self-coach alignment audit in NCAA collegiate rowers: field feasibility, null findings, and design-sensitivity analysis for future self-verification research.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Translational Lifestyle Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of a Four-Week NCAA-Compliant Pre-Season Strength and Conditioning Program on Body Composition in NCAA Division II Women's Basketball.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study interrogates whether mental toughness (MT) and self-compassion (SC)-historically framed as oppositional constructs-can coexist synergistically among NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA collegiate athletes, with mindfulness as a hypothesized mediator. A cross-sectional survey of 396 participants (mean age: 19.8 yrs ± 1.9 SD; females: 51%), revealed a robust MT-SC correlation (r = 0.46), which attenuated to 0.31 when mindfulness was modeled, signaling its role as a partial mediator. Hierarchical regression controlling for sex showed that MT and sex together explained 22% of the SC variance (ΔR
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