Supporting Athlete Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study of Psychosocial Skills, Resilience, and Well-Being

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Mosewich, Amber

• SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Supporting Canadians involved in sport requires promoting the development of adaptive psychosocial skills and resilience, thereby fostering the ability to manage or adapt to demands and work towards one’s potential while maintaining well-being. Canada’s model of long-term development in sport and physical activity (LTAD) emphasizes the promotion of psychosocial skills as an integral component of sport delivery (Canadian Sport for Life, 2019; MacNeill et al., 2014). Our research seeks to further understand athlete psychosocial development within a Canadian LTAD model through a longitudinal examination of psychosocial skills, resources, resilience, and well-being. Framed in resiliency theory, this research is (a) conceptually connected to the skills targeted by the LTAD model and (b) positioned to provide insights that can be used to direct future promotion and/or intervention efforts aimed at participant support and development within the Canadian Sport for Life movement. The objective of this research is to examine the trajectories of change in psychosocial skills, resources, resilience, and well-being among adolescent and youth adult athletes participating in a LTAD-based program over a multi-year period, spanning stages of athlete development (with an emphasis on the Train to Train and Train to Compete stages). Our research questions are: (1) How do psychosocial skills, resources, resilience, and well-being change (i.e., develop) over time in LTAD programming?; (2) Which psychosocial skills and resources are promotive factors for resilience and how do they predict resilience and well-being?; and (3) What factors and experiences do athletes perceive contribute to their trajectories (i.e., the development, regression, or, maintenance) of resilience and well-being?

• Date created

  2020-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Resilience
  • Psychosocial Skills
  • Athletes
  • Sport
  • Longitudinal Design
  • Canadian Sport for Life
  • Long-Term Athlete Development
  • Youth
  • Emerging Adults
  • Well-Being
  • Sports Psychology
  • Life Span Development
  • Behavioural Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Education
  • Youth
  • Canada

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-5j4v-cq51

• License

  ©️Mosewich, Amber. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2026.