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

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 14; p. 1192265
• Main Authors: Zhang, Nan, Huang, Jiasheng, Yao, Jiaxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...