Youth Football Players' Psychological Well-Being: The Key Role of Relationships.

ABSTRACT: Well-being in youth sport is a growing topic in literature. Practicing sports at a youth level is recognized as an important opportunity for growth and development but also an experience that conversely can prove to be tiring and cause discomfort. Sometimes expectations and pressures make it a risky experience. This is emphasized even more when looking at very popular and spectacular sports, such as football in some European Countries; practicing football often solicits the hope of becoming champions one day and thus being able living thanks to the beloved sport. How do young Italian football practitioners feel? What role do relationships with significant others belonging to the world of sport and extra-sport play on the well-being of young athletes? On which specific aspects of psychologi

SUBMITTER: Reverberi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7683523 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature