Athletes’ self-compassion and emotional resilience to failure: the mediating role of vagal reactivity

Whether athletes’ self-compassion predicts their emotional resilience to failure has yet to be empirically tested. Moreover, as an important physiological process of stress regulation, vagal reactivity is a plausible physiological mechanism for this relationship. Through a laboratory-based observati...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 14; p. 1192265
Main Authors Zhang, Nan, Huang, Jiasheng, Yao, Jiaxin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 09.06.2023
Subjects
emotional resilience
failure
mediation
Psychology
self-compassion
vagal reactivity
vagal reactivity
mediation
failure
emotional resilience
self-compassion
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Summary:Whether athletes’ self-compassion predicts their emotional resilience to failure has yet to be empirically tested. Moreover, as an important physiological process of stress regulation, vagal reactivity is a plausible physiological mechanism for this relationship. Through a laboratory-based observational study of 90 college athletes, this research explores the influence of athletes’ trait self-compassion on their emotional resilience when recalling failure, and examines whether vagal reactivity plays a mediating role. The results show that self-compassion did not significantly predict athletes’ positive emotions but did significantly predict better recovery from negative emotions after recalling failure events. Furthermore, vagal reactivity was a significant mediator between self-compassion and recovery from negative emotions.
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Edited by: Zi Yan, Merrimack College, United States
Reviewed by: Gewnhi Park, Westmont College, United States; Richard Gevirtz, Alliant International University, United States
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1192265