Adolescent soccer athletes’ irrational beliefs about basic psychological needs are related to their emotional intelligence and mental health

DEVEY, Alexander, TURNER, Martin J., ARTIRAN, Murat and HOBSON, Jennifer (2023). Adolescent soccer athletes’ irrational beliefs about basic psychological needs are related to their emotional intelligence and mental health. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 41 (2), 380-391.

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Abstract

There has been a scarcity of research regarding the unique mental health risk factors that adolescent athletes face. The recently proposed Rational Emotive Self Determination Scale for Adolescents (RESD-A) has been suggested to understand some of the antecedent and associative factors of adolescent athlete mental health. The principal aim of this study is to examine the structural and criterion validity of the RESD-A in an athlete sample for the first time. To achieve this aim, two hundred and forty-two club level soccer athletes participated in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to test the validity of the RESD-A’s factor structure. Partial correlation analyses with the subscales of RESD-A, emotional intelligence, and mental health scores were used to examine criterion validity. Initial results for the structural and criterion validity of the RESD-A with an athlete population are promising. The potential importance, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1701 Psychology; Clinical Psychology; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; 5203 Clinical and health psychology; 5205 Social and personality psychology
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-022-00464-0
Page Range:	380-391
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2024 13:00
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2024 13:15
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33564

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