Vuijst, Daan de (2022) The Mental and Physical Resilience Process of Elite Rowers, and the Role of Mindset and Goal Orientation. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In the past decades, much research has been done on mental and physical resilience in sports. Initially, research has examined characteristics and mental factors of athletes that would make them more or less resilient in general. However, more recent studies have considered resilience as a temporal process, and analysed the critical fluctuations and variability within individual time-series as indicators of resilience. In this study, I aimed to build further upon this dynamic approach, by measuring individuals’ mindset tendency and goal orientation and relating this to their resilience process. I collected data of 36 elite rowers of a Dutch rowing club. At the start of the study, rowers filled out a general questionnaire measuring several psychological constructs, including mindset and goal orientation. In addition, they were asked to scan a QR-code before and after each training session, to fill out single-item questions regarding their psychological and physical state at that moment (i.e., perceived recovery, self-efficacy, motivation, mood). By measuring this over time, I could analyse the variability in rowers’ states as a resilience indicator throughout the season. Contrary to my hypotheses, neither mindset tendency nor goal orientation correlated significantly with the fluctuations in daily assessments of the psychological and physical states, although a significant relationship was found between growth mindset tendency and self-based approach goal orientation. Critical evaluations of the current study show several limitations that might explain the insignificant findings. This study continues to broaden the scientific foundation of literature on resilience, and provides several directions for future research.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hartigh, J.R. den |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2022 07:33 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2022 07:33 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1339 |
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