ArticleAustralian journal of psychology2024
Beyond physical recovery: investigating athletic identity as a mediator between social support and psychological readiness for return to sport.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Athletic identity and sport injury: a systematic review and meta-aggregation.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The utility of psychological readiness scales in predicting return to sport: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Tracking Recovery in Motion: Longitudinal, Multi-Contextual Monitoring of Return-to-Play in Collegiate Basketball.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Cross-cultural translation, adaptation, and validation of the Chinese versions of the athlete fear avoidance questionnaire and fear of return to sport scale.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- The influence of athletic identity, coach-athlete relationship quality, and peer climate on emotional resilience in injury-prone sports.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Chinese version of the injury-psychological readiness to return to sport scale.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: Despite consensus on the positive relationships between social support, psychological readiness for returning to sport, and athletic identity, debate persists regarding the specific impact of these factors on athletes' athletic identity and psychological readiness. This study investigated athletic identity as a mediator between social support and psychological readiness for returning to sport. Method: The research involved two phases. In Phase 1, four bilingual translators translated the Athletic Identity Scale and the Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport scale into Chinese using the forward-backward translation. A pilot study assessed the scales' face validity with 30 athletes who had experienced injuries. In Phase 2, 234 injured athletes (age: Results: Findings showed a positive correlation between social support and both athletic identity and psychological readiness. However, athletic identity did not mediate the relationship between social support and psychological readiness. Conclusions: We recommend using various measurement tools to capture psychological readiness, particularly in the later return-to-sport stages and suggest that coaches and teammates hold welcome ceremonies to enhance psychological readiness and athletic identity through social support.
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