Success in sport and school is related to self-regulation. Additionally, sport experts are high academic achievers. We examined the role of 6 self-regulatory skills in the sport and academic performances of elite youth athletes (12-16 years) and compared their scores with age-matched controls in 2 academic secondary school systems (pre-university vs. pre-vocational). Pre-university students out...

This study explored the relationships between athletes' competence self-perceptions and metaperceptions. Two hundred and fifty one student-athletes (14.26 ± 1.89 years), members of twenty different teams (basketball, soccer) completed a questionnaire which included the Perception of Success Questionnaire, the Competence subscale of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory, and modified versions of bo...

Despite a growing body of literature demonstrating a positive relationship between sleep and optimal performance, athletes often have low sleep quality and quantity. Insufficient sleep among athletes may be due to scheduling constraints and the low priority of sleep relative to other training demands, as well as a lack of awareness of the role of sleep in optimizing athletic performance. Domain...

Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality construct that has been linked with various forms of maladjustment. In this article, we discuss the role of perfectionism as a maladaptive factor in sports and exercise, and we describe a phenomenon we identify as the perfectionism paradox. We note that even though certain sports require athletes to achieve perfect performance outcomes, the tenden...

background: progressive prevalence of anabolic steroid use and physical and mental consequences of these drugs are known as worldwide healthy problems. willingness to being fitness and having muscular body and unhealthy beliefs about anabolic steroids are determinant behavioral factors of anabolic storied use. the purpose of this study was to determine the behavioral reason of anabolic steroid ...

Self-actualization profiles were plotted for 265 college-age able-bodied male athletes and 30 elite cerebral palsied male athletes, M age = 24.9, all of whom were international competitors. These profies were examined in relation to one another and in relation to two normative groups, one consisting of adults and one consisting of college students. Results indicated that collegeage able-bodied ...