Beliefs on the ability to regulate negative emotions mediates the effects of competitive anger on task-focused self-efficacy in taekwondo athletes.

ABSTRACT: Self-efficacy (SE) refers to an individual's belief in their own ability to successfully execute specific tasks and produce desired outcomes. The focused SE on specific sports tasks has been shown to impact athletic performance by interacting with other self-evaluation processes, like self-efficacy beliefs in emotion-related regulation and effective emotion regulation. This study aims at investigating the mediating effect of SE in regulating negative affect in the relationship between anger and taekwondo task-focused SE. Accordingly, the study aims to adapt and validate the Roundhouse Kick Self-Efficacy Scale (RKSES) in Italian, which assesses taekwondo task-focused SE in athletes. In study 1, 180 Italian taekwondo athletes (M _age = 27.6, SD = 12; 89.4 % black belt

SUBMITTER: Bovolon L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11535967 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature