The Athlete's Personal Authenticity as a Resource of Mental Well-Being in a Crisis of Coping with Sport Injury

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Abstract

The article presents an overview of modern foreign studies on the well-being of professional athletes during the period of coping with the crisis associated with sport injury. It is indicated that sports injury has not only signs of damage to the body, but also triggers specific deep processes, including combined distress, violation of psychological well-being, inability to plan and implement professional goals. To cope with them, an injured athlete needs a wide range of internal mental resources, and in their context, personal authenticity is of particular importance. The approaches to understanding this phenomenon are analyzed, and studies on related topics are presented that reveal the psychological potential of authenticity in preserving and strengthening psychological well-being. On the model of sports injury, the prospect of a special successful rehabilitation through the implementation of internal growth associated with injury (SIRG) is considered. The problems and prospects of further research are outlined, and a vision is given of the wide application of the described mechanisms in the work related to the recovery of patients and their psychological well-being.

General Information

Keywords: psychological well-being, sport psychology, sport injury, authenticity, identity, posttraumatic growth

Journal rubric: Medical Psychology

Article type: review article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2024130409

Funding. The contribution of K. Bochaver was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project no. 20-18-00262: “Authenticity of the person: Premises, phenomena, applications”.

Received: 30.09.2024

Accepted:

For citation: Bochaver K.A., Desyatnikova A.V., Zyazina N.A. The Athlete's Personal Authenticity as a Resource of Mental Well-Being in a Crisis of Coping with Sport Injury [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sovremennaia zarubezhnaia psikhologiia = Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2024. Vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 97–107. DOI: 10.17759/jmfp.2024130409. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Konstantin A. Bochaver, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Psychology Department, HSE University, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, assistant professor at the psychology chair, head of sport psychology laboratory, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4976-2271, e-mail: konstantin.bochaver@gmail.com

Aili V. Desyatnikova, researcher of sport psychology laboratory, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2833-6307, e-mail: aili.psy@mail.ru

Natalia A. Zyazina, researcher of sport psychology laboratory, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2877-5741, e-mail: zyazina11@gmail.com

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