Understanding the personality characteristics that help and/or hinder competitive success in
sport is of great interest to many sport psychology researchers. Grit (ie passion and …

Investigating sport persistence can make a significant contribution to a thorough
examination and understanding of the factors underlying an athlete's activity, integrating …

The coach-created motivational climate refers to the environmental factors that influence the
athletes' emotional, cognitive, physical and social experiences and could be more or less …

Perfectionism and grit have both been linked to the achievement-striving process in sport,
yet very little is known about the relationships between the two constructs. The present study …

This article proposes an integrative model for the psychological resources of grit. The
growing body of work in nursing on the topic of grit indicates considerable interest in …

This paper contributes to the debate as to whether grit is best conceptualized and measured
as a domain-specific or domain-general construct. In the field of sport psychology, grit has …

We examined the naturalness bias-the tendency to prefer people who seem to come by their
talent naturally and not through work or effort-on ratings of athletic ability. Football (soccer) …

Introduction Grit, a combination of enduring effort and persistent interest, is key to long-term
goals. The training of preservice physical education (PE) teachers is vital for child …

Background/Objectives: Sport persistence is the embodiment of sports performance and
mental toughness. It refers to our attempts concerning the performance plateau, failures …

Setting objectives and evaluating success are intrinsically linked to motivation in sports and
behavior during training and competition. According to social cognitive theory, the …