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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1192265
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self-compassion; emotional resilience; failure; vagal reactivity; mediation
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This study examines whether athletes' self-compassion predicts their emotional resilience to failure and if vagal reactivity plays a mediating role in this relationship. Results show that self-compassion does not significantly predict athletes' positive emotions but does significantly predict better recovery from negative emotions after recalling failure events. Furthermore, vagal reactivity is a significant mediator between self-compassion and recovery from negative emotions.
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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