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Measuring well-being in sport performers: where are we now and how do we progress?
journal contribution
posted on 2020-02-27, 14:19 authored by Sam Giles, David FletcherDavid Fletcher, Rachel Arnold, Arabella Ashfield, Joanna HarrisonThe importance of optimal well-being and mental health in elite athletes has received increasing attention and debate in
both the academic and public discourse. Despite the number of challenges and risk factors for mental health and well-being
recognised within the performance lifestyle of elite athletes, the evidence base for intervention is limited by a number of
methodological and conceptual issues. Notably, there exists an increasing emphasis on the development of appropriate sportspecifc measures of athlete well-being, which are required to underpin strategies targeted at the protection and enhancement
of psychosocial functioning. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to review psychometric issues in well-being research and
discuss the implications for the measurement of well-being in sport psychology research. Drawing on the broader literature
in related disciplines of psychology, the narrative discusses four key areas in the scale development process: conceptual and
theoretical issues, item development issues, measurement and scoring issues, and analytical and statistical issues. To conclude,
a summary of the key implications for sport psychology researchers seeking to develop a measure of well-being is presented.
Funding
Loughborough University and the English Institute of Sport
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Sports MedicinePublisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Rights holder
© The Author(s)Acceptance date
2020-02-14Publication date
2019-02-26Copyright date
2020ISSN
0112-1642eISSN
1179-2035Publisher version
Language
- en