Attitudes toward sport psychology consulting in athletes: Understanding the role of culture and personality.

Ong, Nathanael C. H.; Harwood, Chris

doi:10.1037/spy0000103

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“…The stigma related to negative perceptions of psychological support regarding both team coaches and administration were factors highlighted by Green et al [15] Finally, Carson and Polman [4] mentioned that professional rugby players who have experienced a TRI tend to employ a variety of cognitive coping strategies, specifically cognitive avoidance and blocking during TRI recovery.…”

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South African professional Super Rugby players’ lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries: A descriptive phenomenological analysis

Hall

Basson

Patricios

2020

S. Afr. j. sports med

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Background: Historically, non-career-ending traumatic rugby injury (TRI) has been viewed from a predominantly biological perspective. However, dimensional perspectives, such as the biopsychosocial model, have highlighted the need to incorporate psychosocial understandings of TRI into treatment plans. Aim: To describe the lived experiences of a cohort of traumatically injured South African Super Rugby players in order to add to the body of literature on the subject of TRI experience. Methods: The employment of a qualitative, descriptive phenomenological method was used to achieve the research outcome. Discussion: Common descriptive themes indicated that TRI seems to exist within three stages: the initial, emotional and subsequent reactions to the traumatic injury. Sub-themes described within each stage included attempts at remaining positive and appraising the severity of the injury during onset, fear responses and concomitant feelings of loss related to foregone career opportunities during the emotional reactions stage, the employment of coping mechanisms, and relying on specific support structures during subsequent reactions. Two novel experiences revealed within this study and not reported in the international literature included the injured players’ reliance on compartmentalisation and positive religious belief structures as coping strategies. All themes were reduced to descriptive phenomenological essences that describe a lifeworld or biopsychosocial experience of TRI. Conclusion: Themes drawn from this study can be applied in the future design and implementation of expanded studies and psychological interventions aimed at assisting traumatically injured rugby players during their recovery process. The identified themes affirm aspects from the international literature while highlighting some uniquely South African outcomes.

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South African professional Super Rugby players’ lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries: A descriptive phenomenological analysis

Hall

Basson

Patricios

2020

S. Afr. j. sports med

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“…The studies focusing specifically on attitudes towards sport psychology support found some evidence that attitudes can differ in regards to a range of factors (e.g., gender, age, sports type, nationality, and culture; Anderson et al, 2004;Martin, 2005;Martin, Lavallee, Kellman, & Page, 2004). Importantly for the current study, there was evidence that personality characteristics play a key role in the attitudes that are formed with conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness all predicting more positive attitudes towards sport psychology support (Ong & Harwood, 2018).…”

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“…The SPA-R has a response format of 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) and has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure with previous Cronbach's alphas ranging between .61 to .84 (Ong & Harwood, 2018). help for psychological problems"), (c) Indifference to Stigma (8 items; e.g., "I would not want my significant other, spouse, partner, etc., to know if I was suffering from psychological problems").…”

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Perfectionism and Attitudes Toward Sport Psychology Support and Mental Health Support in Athletes

Watson

Hill

Madigan

2023

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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Attitudes toward help-seeking will contribute to whether athletes ask for support for performance and mental health issues when needed. While research outside of sport has found perfectionism is related to negative attitudes toward help-seeking, no studies have examined the relationship in sport. The authors provided the first test of whether perfectionism predicted attitudes toward both sport psychology support and mental health support. One hundred and sixty-six collegiate athletes completed measures of perfectionism and attitudes toward sport psychology support and mental health support. Multiple regression analyses revealed that perfectionistic concerns positively predicted closedness and stigma toward sport psychology support and mental health support, and negatively predicted help-seeking toward mental health support. However, perfectionistic strivings negatively predicted stigma toward sport psychology support and mental health support, and positively predicted confidence in sport psychology support and help-seeking toward mental health support. Athletes higher in perfectionistic concerns are less likely to seek support when required.

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“…For example, Naoi et al suggested that due to exposure to a much more ethnically and racially diverse society throughout their lives, American athletes showed less concern about working with consultants of different races and cultures than Japanese athletes [ 15 ]. Similarly, Ong and Harwood reported that Western athletes had less stigma toward sport psychology consulting, greater personal openness, and less preference for a consultant of the same race or culture than Eastern athletes, despite some Eastern countries being racially diverse, such as in Singapore [ 16 ]. The final factor is one’s personal openness, which represents the athlete’s degree of willingness to engage in sport psychology consulting and discuss relevant issues [ 14 ].…”

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“…As well as gender, certain personality traits have been found to influence one’s attitude towards sport psychology. For example, a study by Ong and Harwood found that openness and conscientiousness were associated with positive attitudes towards sport psychology [ 16 ]. Other studies have shown that individuals who demonstrated high levels of extraversion displayed more positive attitudes towards psychological support [ 23 , 24 ].…”

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Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes

Rooney

Jackson

Heron

2021

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil

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Background The purpose of the present study was to investigate how an athlete’s participation in either an individual or team sport is related to their attitude toward sport psychology consulting and their willingness to consult a sport psychology practitioner. Method The Sport Psychology Attitudes-Revised form (SPA-R) (Martin, et al., Sport Psychol 16:272-90, 2020) was completed by 120 athletes from individual and team sports. A 2 (Type of sport: individual and team) × 2 (Gender) multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was conducted with attitudes towards sport psychology as dependent variables. To identify attitudes that accentuated the differences related to type of sport, follow-up univariate analyses were performed. Results Results revealed that overall athletes involved in individual sports reported more positive attitudes towards sport psychology consulting than athletes involved in team sports. In particular, the athletes involved in individual sports were more likely to have greater confidence in sport psychology consulting. The findings also show that gender may mediate this association, indicated by a nearly significant two-way interaction effect for gender and type of sport (individual versus team) regarding confidence in sport psychology. The source of this marginal result was a larger effect of sport type for females than for males. Conclusions The findings of this study imply that athletes involved in individual sports are more likely to have positive attitudes towards sport psychology compared to athletes competing in team-based sports, with females more likely to view sport psychology positively than compared to their male counterparts. The results may go some way to assist sport psychologists to understand and address athletes’ concerns and to improve receptivity to sport psychology services.

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Attitudes toward sport psychology consulting in athletes: Understanding the role of culture and personality.

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

South African professional Super Rugby players’ lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries: A descriptive phenomenological analysis

South African professional Super Rugby players’ lived experiences of career-related traumatic injuries: A descriptive phenomenological analysis

Perfectionism and Attitudes Toward Sport Psychology Support and Mental Health Support in Athletes

Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes

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