Helping Athletes Maintain Motivation and Increase Psychological Wellbeing amidst COVID-19 and other Setbacks

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Parker, Patti

• SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: For this research we are interested in accomplishing three main objectives. Objective 1: to first identify athlete perceptions of control during low-control setbacks, such as sport interruptions, and their impact on motivation in sport and psychosocial wellbeing. Objective 2: to design an online intervention to boost secondary control (SC) for atheletes facing low-control setbacks. This objective will be guided by the mixed-method results from Objective 1, collaborative strategies with athlete and coaches' input, and control theory. Objective 3: to evaluate the efficacy of the SC intervention in inceasing SC, motivation in sport, and psychosocial wellbeing outcomes. The findings for this research will advance the study of secondary control (SC) by testing its influence in an applied sport context.

• Date created

  2021-02-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • IDG
  • Insight Development Grant
  • SSHRC
  • Perceived Control
  • Secondary Control
  • Athletes in Postsecondary
  • Motivation in Sport
  • Psychological Wellbeing
  • Sport Setbacks
  • Mixed-Methods Research
  • Intervention
  • Longitudinal Research
  • Sport Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Post-Secondary Education
  • Post-Secondary Research
  • Mental Health

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-t7ze-yb16

• License

  ©️Parker, Patti. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.