Coping with COVID-19: Can a Sense of Coherence and Social Support Play a Protective Role in the Perception of COVID-19 by Polish Women Football Players? A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Athletes have demonstrated a significant increase in anxiety and stress connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the theory of salutogenesis, this study examined the relationship between the sense of coherence and social support and competitive elite-level athletes' perception of the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Materials And Methods: The perceived secondary gains associated with the pandemic were analysed with a quasi-qualitative research methodology.

On the self-regulation of sport practice: Moving the narrative from theory and assessment toward practice.

This paper reviews theoretical developments specific to applied research around the "psychology of practice" in skill acquisition settings, which we argue is under-considered in applied sport psychology. Centered upon the , we explain how self-regulated learning conceptually underpins this survey and review recent data supporting its empirical validation for gauging athletes' psychological processes in relation to sport practice. This paper alternates between a review of applied research on self-regulated sport practice and new data analyses to: (a) show how scores on the SRSP combine to determine an expert practice advantage and (b) illustrate the large scope of self-organized or athlete-led time to which SRSP processes may apply.

Examining the validity of the polish short form version of the self-regulated learning-sport practice survey among competitive athletes.

Introduction: Self-regulated learning entails psychological processes that elite athletes employ to optimize their practice. Although self-regulated learning provides insights into athlete-led practice, research has been limited to few cultures, and the particularities of how SRL surveys perform in new cultural contexts require attention. Moreover, there exists no measure to assess SRL and its relationship to quality sport practice in Polish.

Cognitive Factors in Elite Handball: Do Players' Positions Determine Their Cognitive Processes?

For an athlete to be successful at the professional level, he or she should be characterized by extraordinary preparation in four areas: physical, technical, cognitive (related to game strategy, perception, and decision-making), and emotional (coping, emotional control). This study aimed to determine the level of selected cognitive traits in handball players while considering their sports level and assigned position on the court. Fifty handball players participated in the study.

Transitions in the Careers of Competitive Swimmers: To Continue or Finish with Elite Sport?

An athletic career is a succession of stages and transitions (normative and non-normative), which may have decisive effects on either maintaining a satisfactory and/or successful course or deciding about premature career termination. The main purpose of this study was to identify differences between swimmers (M = 21.32, = 2.

The Athlete's Perception of Coaches' Behavior Towards Competitors with a Different Sports Level.

The study was designed to examine how active and former athletes across a different sports level perceived coaching behavior. Eighty competitive athletes (44 males and 36 females; 21.89 ± 1.

Predicting performance and performance satisfaction: mindfulness and beliefs about the ability to deal with social barriers in sport.

This research investigates the role of beliefs about the ability to deal with specific social barriers and its relationships to mindfulness, football performance, and satisfaction with one's own and team performance. Study 1 aimed at eliciting these social barriers. Study 2 tested (i) whether self-efficacy referring to social barriers would predict performance over and above task-related self-efficacy and collective efficacy and (ii) the mediating role of self-efficacy to overcome social barriers in the relationship between mindfulness and performance.

[Congenital dislocation of the knee with forefoot--adduction deformity].

A two days newborn girl a congenital recurvatum of the right knee and bilateral congenital adduction of forefootwas treated in The Department of Orthopaedics in Gdańsk. A slow correction of the knee was performed followed by cast immobilization. A good result was observed.