Due to the promising effect of self-compassion interventions in sports, it was main goal this study investigate, if two aspects repetitive thinking, worry and rumination, mediate possible relation on competition anxiety women men different types sport (team- vs. individual sport). Two hundred ninety-three athletes participated, 127 were soccer players, 103 handball 63 practiced an sport. They c...

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic has had a high impact on mental health. Also, semiprofessional football players are strongly affected by the disease 2019 (COVID-19) because training during lockdown phase been forbidden. It was primary goal of this study to investigate if those athletes suffer from depressive mood and fear future. Furthermore, question asked whether psychological variables sel...

Pain catastrophizing is a well-known concept in the pain literature and has been recognized as one of the most powerful psychological determinants of negative outcomes for pain problems. However, relatively little effort has been put into developing its theoretical underpinnings. More specifically, the intrinsic function of catastrophizing is not explicitly dealt with in contemporary theoretica...