Attachment and well-being: the mediating effects of psychological needs satisfaction within the coacheathlete and parente athlete relational contexts.

Felton, Luke and Jowett, Sophia (2013) Attachment and well-being: the mediating effects of psychological needs satisfaction within the coacheathlete and parente athlete relational contexts. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14 (1). pp. 57-65. ISSN 1469-0292

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Abstract

Objectives: Grounded in attachment theory and self determination theory, this study aimed to examine whether basic needs satisfaction is a mechanism by which athletes’ insecure attachment styles are associated with levels of well-being.
Method: Athletes (N ¼ 430) from a range of sports and competition levels completed a multi-section questionnaire to assess the main variables of the study.
Results: Bootstrap mediation analysis revealed that athletes’ perceptions of satisfaction of basic psychological needs generally mediated the association between their attachment styles and well-being.
Moreover, the indirect effect of athletes’ experience of the satisfaction of basic needs on well-being was greater within the parental relational context than within the coaching relational context.
Conclusions: Overall, the findings from the study highlight that the integration of attachment and selfdetermination theories can promote understanding of relational process in sport.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	attachment, well-being, basic psychological needs, parents, coaches
Subjects:	C600 Sports Science
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation
Depositing User:	Luke Felton
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2014 09:32
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 16:25
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/16813

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