short communicationThe company we keep: Exploring the relationship between perceived teammate self-compassion and athlete self-compassion
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Participants
One-hundred and eight adult competitive athletes from 23 teams participating in interdependent sports completed the study. Participants lived in either Australia (n = 51, 47.2%) or Canada (n = 57, 52.8%). The most frequently cited team sports were soccer (n = 12), cricket (n = 11), volleyball (n = 10), basketball (n = 10), ice hockey (n = 8), broomball (n = 8), wheelchair basketball (n = 7), and netball (n = 6). All other sports were cited fewer than five times. The mean age of participants was
Preliminary analyses
Prior to analysis, data were first screened for missing data. Approximately 10 pieces of data from different participants (nine for self-compassion, and one descriptive norm response) were missing, which was less than 0.05% of the data. Due to the small sample size, within-person mean values for those missing data points were imputed to retain all possible data (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2013). Outliers and normality were examined through box plots and skewness/kurtosis values. All data were
Discussion
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between self-compassion and individuals’ perceptions of their teammates’ self-compassion (descriptive norms). Further, we explored whether the relationship was moderated by gender. From the results, three discussion points are noteworthy.
First, the findings add to the growing self-compassion literature in sport contexts by supporting a relationship between perceptions of teammates’ self-compassion and athletes’ self-reported
Acknowledgements
This project was funded by a Sansom Institute for Health Research grant to the first author.
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