What is mental toughness? This research draws on the experience of elite athletes and coaches to unearth a conceptualisation and definition of mental toughness. The interviews of 33 elite athletes and coaches (including 25 current or former elite athletes, of whom 15 had achieved an Olympic Gold Medal or World Champion status) were transcribed verbatim and analysed qualitatively to reveal under...

The present study is an attempt to explore academic achievement and home environment as correlates of self-concept in a sample of 300 adolescents. The results of the study revealed self-concept to be positively correlated with academic achievement, though not significantly so. A significantly positive relationship of home environment components of protectiveness, conformity, reward, and nurtura...

This study reports data regarding gymnastic injuries. Examined were the number, severity, and location of injuries, events associated with injury occurrence, relationship in time between occurrence and competition, and the perceptions of causes. In addition, this study investigated the relationships between the psychological factors of trait anxiety, locus of control, self-concept and stressful...

The purpose of this study is to explore the psychometric quality of a self-evaluation instrument based on Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (1991; 1993; 1995). Self-evaluated intelligence is closely related to a person’s selfconcept and can reflect both general and academic components of it. Our data includes Finnish students from five different universities (N=256). The questionnaire ...

The objective of the study was to examine psychometric characteristics of the short form of the Physical-Self Description Questionnaire (PSDQ-S) in a Slovenian adolescent sample and to examine the differences in multidimensional physical selfconcept in relation to age and gender. Participants were 362 elementary and high school students (189 girls, 173 boys, Mage=15.28). Confirmatory factor ana...

In transference, a perceiver’s representation of a significant other is activated and used to interpret and respond to a new target person who bears some resemblance to the particular significant other. Integrating research on face perception and transference, we hypothesized that transference can occur on the basis of the resemblance of a target’s facial features to those of a perceiver’s sign...

Visual impairment is a large and growing socioeconomic problem. Although visual impairment and blindness among children is much less common than among adults, the potential lifespan of a child means that the lifelong impact of such impairment is very large (1). Observational and behavioral research has shown that early development of a child is constrained by impaired vision in a complex way (2...

ABSTRACT Objective: To implement the nursing process, based on Neuman Systems Model and International Classification of Nursing Practice terminology, in care an adolescent who underwent corrective surgery for juvenile idiopathic scoliosis. Method: This is a qualitative study type single case, with triangulation data collection techniques (formal clinical interview, notes field diary medical rec...

Regulated by self-consciousness, self-deception is a part of the self-system that suppresses negative aspects of the self and maintains a positive moral self-concept. We tested this evolutionary hypothesis on 166 college students by measuring self-deception using both a questionnaire and a series of hypothetical helping scenarios. The results showed a positive correlation between self-deception...

We examine the relationship between employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored volunteerism and their organizational commitment. In two different organizational settings the psychological functions served by participating in corporate-sponsored volunteer programs were shown to be differentially predictive of employees’ organizational commitment. The more employees volunteered based on func...