ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Exercise identity and psychological distress among university sport participants: the roles of self-compassion and training stress.
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Introduction: University sport participation is often assumed to protect mental health, yet sport can also become an identity-relevant source of pressure. This cross-sectional study examined whether exercise identity was associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms among university sport participants, and whether self-compassion and perceived training stress clarified this association. Methods: A one-wave online questionnaire yielded 363 eligible participants after consent, eligibility, and attention-check screening. Results: Exercise identity was positively associated with anxiety and depression, whereas self-compassion was inversely associated with both outcomes and training stress was positively associated with both outcomes. In adjusted complete-case models ( Discussion: These findings challenge a uniformly protective view of sport identity and identify self-compassion and training stress as relevant psychological correlates of distress in university sport contexts. Because the data are cross-sectional and partly complete-case dependent, the conditional indirect model should be interpreted as exploratory.
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