How Does a Sport Psychological Intervention Help Professional Cyclists to Cope With Their Mental Health During the COVID-19 Lockdown?

All around the world in March, due to COVID-19, competitive sport calendars were suddenly canceled, jeopardizing the training programs of athletes. Moreover, in Italy, the government banned all non-essential travel across the entire country from the beginning of March. Consequently, Italian cyclists were banned from leaving their homes and therefore unable to perform their ordinary training activities.

A cross-cultural validation of the Attention Questionnaire of Rehabilitated Athletes Returning to competition.

Objectives: To culturally adapt the Attention Questionnaire of Rehabilitated Athletes Returning to Competition (AQ-RARC) in the Italian language.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Italian athletes.

The Implementation and Evaluation of a Media Literacy Intervention About PAES Use in Sport Science Students.

With respect to both competitive and amateur/fitness sports, media may strongly influence young people's opinions and behaviors concerning the use of PAES (). The present investigation addressed this topic by focusing on sport sciences students' beliefs concerning the possible role of media related to the implementation and evaluation of a PAES-focus media literacy intervention conducted with sport science students. This study relied on a sample of 521 students (attrition rate 10.

The Injury-Psychological Readiness to return to sport (I-PRRS) scale and the Sport Confidence Inventory (SCI): A cross-cultural validation.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally validate in the Italian language the I-PRRS and the SCI.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Injured Italian athletes.

Well-Come Back! Professional Basketball Players Perceptions of Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors Influencing a Return to Pre-injury Levels.

The psychological factors influencing a return to sport has gained increased research attention. In the current investigation, we explored professional basketball players' perceptions of the psychosocial and behavioral factors facilitating a return to performance equal to or exceeding previous performance standards. We also sought to describe athletes' experiences - both positive and negative - of returning to sport following injury recovery.