Miquel TorregrossaAutonomous University of Barcelona | UAB · Departamento de Psicología Básica, Evolutiva y de la Educación
Miquel Torregrossa
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July 2020 - September 2020
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Abstract In this study, we explored the multifaceted concept of perceived mental and physical effort in team sport contexts where athletes must invest individual and shared efforts to reach a common goal. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 15 Catalan professional coaches (3 women and 12 men, 3 each from the follo...
Drawing from self-determination theory, the purpose of this study was to examine how environmental factors predict coaches' intrinsic motivation and amotivation, which in turn were expected to be related to coaches' subjective vitality and stress. Development coaches (n = 311) completed a questionnaire tapping the targeted variables. Structural equ...
One of the transitions that has received little attention in scientific literature is the transition from junior to professional sport, specifically in football. Based on the development model of Wylleman and Lavallee (2004), the aim of this study is to explore, retrospectively, the challenges that junior football players experienced in making the...
The main purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of a strategy that combined self talk and performance feedback. Therefore, three groups of adult tennis players performed a forehand groundstroke task. The first group (n = 16) applied an instructional self talk and self feedback combination, the second (n = 16) used regular instructional s...
Introducción: El colectivo LGTBIQA+ sufre discriminación en el contexto deportivo, lo que les hace sentirse inseguros para salir del armario. En este estudio exploramos esta transición, centrándonos en las minorías sexuales masculinas en el contexto deportivo español. Método: Realizamos entrevistas semiestructuradas a seis deportistas perteneciente...
El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el conocimiento existente sobre los procesos migratorios en entrenadores y entrenadoras profesionales. Para ello, se realizó una revisión sistemática de mapeo de la literatura existente. La búsqueda sistemática se extendió hasta el 31 de agosto de 2023 y no se establecieron limitaciones de fecha de publicació...
The aim of his article is to study the existing knowledge on migratory processes in professional coaches. To achieve this, a systematic mapping review of existing literature was conducted. The systematic search extended up to August 31, 2023, with no date or language restrictions established. Twenty-one studies were selected and analyzed, examining...
Numerous elite student-athletes (ESA) engaged in a dual career, balancing athletic pursuits with education, find themselves grappling with the perception of insufficient time to fulfil their demands. Existing research advocates for the implementation of programs promoting academic flexibility, alongside measures aimed at achieving balance between a...
With a total budget of €4,838,400, TOUCH (Towards the generation of excellent young doctoral researchers in inter-sectoral & transdisciplinary approach) will be able to bring on board 24 PhD students enrolled in a strategic UAB area: mental health and well-being.
The new programme involves several university departments, the CORE in Mental Health...
As part of a growing line of interventions, sports psychology practitioners focus on supporting organizations and their members to better cope with the demands of career transitions. The aim of this article is to share our experience of counseling a High-Performance Center through two concurrent non-normative transitions: the COVID-19 pandemic and...
The Olympics qualification phase is a taxing process for elite athletes, and despite the fact that most do not achieve their goal of qualifying for the Olympics, little is known about how they make meaning from non- qualification. This longitudinal qualitative study describes the stories of athletes preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the...
The aim of this phenomenological and instrumental case study was to explore the
combination of high-performance football and higher education at senior level. In
order to go deeper into this topic, which is part of the research on dual careers, semistructured
interviews were conducted with 7 male student-football players between
18 and 19 years of...
High-performance student athletes face demands in different areas of their lives when pursuing a dual career (DC). We explored the relationship between DC experiences and mental health (MH). A total of 128 high-performance student athletes completed questionnaires (DCES, MHLS-12, MHC-SF). The results show that DC experiences and MH literacy contrib...
Las revisiones existentes sobre carrera dual (CD) ofrecen conclusiones para deportistas en general, sin mencionar el género y perpetuando la infrarrepresentación de las mujeres. Por ello, en esta revisión de alcance nos centramos únicamente en deportistas mujeres con el objetivo de conocer el panorama actual de los estudios sobre CD en deporte feme...
This study examined whether the perceived motivational climate was associated with students’ achievement goals and intrinsic motivation, from a multilevel (i.e., individual- and school-level) perspective within the Physical Education context. The sample was composed of 9855 students aged 10–18 (Mage = 13.96 years; SDage =1.97 years) who belong to 2...
This study aimed to longitudinally evaluate talented athletes’ levels of perfectionism, irrational beliefs, and motivations with regard to their athletic careers. A total of 390 athletes from U14, U16, and junior categories (MageT1 = 15.42) answered shortened versions of the Sport-MPS2, iPBI, and BRSQ during two consecutive seasons, along with ques...
Since Junior-to-Senior Transition (JST) is only considered successful when soccer players become professionals, many junior athletes must cope with failure, and their sporting careers and mental health may be at risk. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to (a) identify different career expectancies of male soccer academy players, and (b) de...
https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/2953402/athletes-and-sport-entourage-s-longitudinal-experiences-on-the-disruption-of-the-olympic-cycle-tokyo
Over the last few years, various studies have reported decreasing well-being levels among doctoral students, who show a higher risk of suffering from psychological distress than the general population. Accordingly, European policies in higher education encourage well-being promotion programs among doctoral studies to enhance young researchers’ well...
Framed in the Ecological-Intersectional Model and the Stages of Career Progression Model, the objective of this study was to explore how women coaching in high-performance settings advanced through the ‘bottle-neck’ path. In total 13 women coaches from Southern Europe between the age of 28 and 46 years working in high-performance contexts were inte...
Although many former elite athletes maintain healthy levels of physical activity after retirement, those who do not, put their health at greater risk than the general population as previous studies have shown. The purpose of this study was to design and implement a Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy intervention consisting of three 45-minute sessi...
Results of the Third Half at the UAB, presented on August 26th. 2022 at the 1st. Conference of Researchers' Mental Health, Budapest (Hungary), organized by the Researcher Mental Health Observatory.
Aunque buena parte de las personas exdeportistas de elite mantienen niveles de actividad física saludable después de la retirada, aquellas que no lo hacen exponen su salud a un riesgo mayor que la población general según han mostrado estudios anteriores. El propósito de este trabajo fue diseñar e implementar una intervención en Terapia Racional Emo...
https://youtu.be/L_K1Gxr1NBk
Career Transition research started in the early sixties focusing on sports retirement (Mihovilovic, 1964) and expanded later approaching other transitions such as the Junior To Senior transition (JTS; Pummell et al., 2004). Sport psychology research borrowed the term transitions from Nancy Schlossberg (1981) and Wylleman et al. (2004) expanded the...
This study aimed to identify Career Indicators (CIs) over the stages of career development (Initiation/Development, Mastery, and Discontinuation stages) in the retirement stage of Portuguese football players. Three thousand five hundred retired Portuguese football players that played between 1960 and 2018 were considered in this study. A path analy...
The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic scoping review of the research focussing on student-athletes' mental health (MH). More specifically, we aimed to describe and synthesise: (a) the study and sample characteristics of the dual career (DC) and MH research literature, (b) the types of MH outcomes examined in student-athlete populati...
RESUMEN El cambio de normativa de la Women's Tennis Association (WTA) a principios del 2019 sobre maternidad y el auge de investigaciones en psicología del deporte sobre este tema en el deporte de élite, inspiraron este estudio cuyo objetivo fue explorar si el cambio de normativa modifica la visión de la compaginación de maternidad y carrera deport...
El cambio de normativa de la Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) a principios del 2019 sobre maternidad y el auge de investigaciones en psicología del deporte sobre este tema en el deporte de élite, inspiraron este estudio cuyo objetivo fue explorar si el cambio de normativa modifica la visión de la compaginación de maternidad y carrera tenística en t...
El confinamiento a causa de la COVID-19 y el aplazamiento de los Juegos Olímpicos
de Tokio 2020 obligó a las personas aspirantes olímpicas a atravesar un ciclo olímpico
incierto y cambiante. Este trabajo describe de qué manera deportistas de alto nivel
y de alto rendimiento vivenciaron la disrupción del ciclo olímpico causada por las
transicion...
El confinament a causa de la COVID-19 i l'ajornament dels Jocs Olímpics de Tòquio
2020 va obligar les persones aspirants olímpiques a travessar un cicle olímpic incert i
canviant. Aquest treball descriu la manera com esportistes d'alt nivell i d'alt rendiment
van vivenciar la disrupció del cicle olímpic causada per les transicions no normatives...
Lockdown due to COVID-19 and the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
meant Olympic hopefuls experienced an uncertain and changing Olympic cycle. This
paper describes the experiences of high-level and high-performance athletes amidst
the disruption of the Olympic cycle caused by the concurrent non-normative transitions
of coronavirus lo...
The purpose of this study was to analyse whether contextual (perception of motivational climate and positive and negative spontaneous self-talk in sports), personal (positivity) and situational variables (positive and negative spontaneous self-talk employed in competition and precompetitive anxiety) predict performance in a competition of ensembles...
Spain is one of the many countries highly affected by the COVID-19 crisis, establishing very restrictive measures with a complete lockdown for more than 3 months. This situation forced the complete closure of sport practice and national or international competitions, leading to a negative impact on physical and psychological health of high-performa...
This study proposed a model to examine the role of self-efficacy, career goals, and athletic identity (AI) on the career planning of elite soccer players. Two hundred and eighty-one elite soccer players (males) participated in this study. Means, SD, and bivariate correlations were calculated for the variables under analysis. The hypothesized effect...
This study describes three phases to investigate athletes' competencies (i.e., skills, attitudes, knowledge) required and used for optimizing their employability in, and across three specific career phases (i.e., active, retirement and new career phase; B-WISER, 2018). Phase 1 describes the development of an instrument, the Athlete Competency Quest...
Objective
Despite a growing body of literature on cultural transitions, little is known regarding how emigrant elite athletes experience and intra-act with the non-human environment in the host country, and how this affects their sense of home. This study explores the relationships between the material world and the embodied narratives, both person...
Siguiendo un ritmo de vida que apenas permite el descanso y la reflexión, el colectivo de estudiantes-deportistas de élite trata de equilibrar las cada vez más exigentes demandas del deporte de alta competición, los estudios y las relaciones sociales. Partiendo del trabajo realizado por Hartmut Rosa, este ensayo teórico se propone reflexionar sobre...
La Carrera Dual (CD) es probablemente uno de los temas estrella en la investigación, aplicación y docencia en Ciencias del Deporte en la segunda década del siglo XXI. Los orígenes de la temática cabe buscarlos en los trabajos que a finales del siglo XX se realizaron sobre los problemas vinculados a la retirada del deporte de élite (ver Jordana et a...
This paper describes two studies aimed at developing and initially validating an instrument that measures athletes’ competencies required to optimize their employability across three career phases (i.e., active, retirement and new career phase; B-WISER, 2018). Study 1 describes the development of the Athlete Competency Questionnaire for Employabili...
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo proponer una taxonomía nacional a través de la identificación y clasificación de los entornos desarrolladores de carrera dual en España. A partir de los resultados del proyecto Erasmus+ Ecology of Dual Careers se ha realizado un análisis documental de los entornos que promueven la carrera dual a nivel nacional, así c...
En este capítulo…
– Se expone la evidencia científica sobre la influencia de los grupos y los entornos en las transiciones deportivas.
– Se explican los modelos teóricos en el ámbito de las transiciones de carrera: ecológico, holístico y de trayectorias.
– Se analiza el papel del entorno y los grupos en las transiciones normativas (transición de jú...
Recientemente, la psicología del deporte ha centrado su atención en la carrera de deportistas mi-grantes transnacionales, quienes transitan entre diversos contextos culturales y experimentan transi-ciones culturales. Sin embargo, son pocos los estudios sobre esta transición con mujeres deportistas. Por ello, mediante la metodología de historias de...
Objetivo. Explorar las experiencias de entrenadores y profesionales de la salud, al asesorar la transición cultural y la carrera deportiva de esgrimistas colombianos migrantes. Método. Se conformaron dos grupos focales en los que participaron nueve personas (seis hombres y tres mujeres), de unequipo multidisciplinario de alto rendimiento en esgrima...
Objetivo. Explorar las similitudes y diferencias de los tipos de motivación hacia la práctica de actividad física (AF) de adolescentes, adultos mayores y exdeportistas de élite, desde la Teoría de la Autodeterminación, para la creación de programas de AF. Método. La recolección de los datos se llevó a cabo mediante grupos focales: tres con adolesce...
A dual career is a challenge faced by many athletes, who have to compaginate their sports training with the dedication required for study, work, or both. A narrative review was conducted to identify and analyze barriers to and resources for the routine of elite athletes. Eleven databases available in the Capes Journal Platform (Portal Capes) were s...
During the 2020, the pandemic caused by the massive spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in a global crisis. In Spain, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lockdown for almost 100 days and forced the sudden stop of sport practices and competitions. This interruption had a negative impact on high-level athletes’ mental health. However,...
Motivational variables and cognitive skills have been identified as important in an athlete’s development. The aim of this study is to explore the influence of each basic psychological needs satisfaction on player’s development regarding reflection and concentration disruption with the mediation of types of passion in Spanish young elite football p...
Background:
Measuring complex constructs, such as those from self-determination theory models, is challenging in the elderly due to the response process, particularly in collective data gathering. In order to examine this construct in physical activity settings we aimed at determining whether single-item measures were as good as pre-existing multi...
The expansion of evidence-based practices in the sports context, shows a promising growth in the use of REBT interventions with athletes. This evolution places us at the moment of gathering the research to identify where evidence is rich or wanting. We carried out a systematic mapping review to (a) classify the type of literature, (b) categorize cu...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the motivational antecedents of passion for sport by testing a model where players' satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs was expected to predict their harmonious and obsessive passions through the mediation of autonomous and controlled motivations. Four-hundred eighty-seven elite U18 ma...
The aim of the present study is to identify and synthesize the facilitators of the cultural transition of migrant athletes using a meta-synthesis. A meta-synthesis is a secondary analysis of primary qualitative research to reveal new knowledge concerning a specific phenomenon, the cultural transition in this case. A systematic research was performe...
Contestar a un gran número de ítems puede suponer una gran carga para las personas participantes, lo cual puede empeorar la calidad de los datos recogidos. Por este motivo, el propósito de nuestro estudio es presentar el método de Máxima Información, Mínima Molestia (MIMO) para el desarrollo de versiones cortas en psicología del deporte. Nuestro pr...
Interest in studying the different transitions faced by elite athletes throughout their careers has grown significantly in recent years. While transition from secondary school to university is an important research area in Europe, there is a void of studies on how student-athletes experience the transition to specific degrees. One of the most sough...
The aim of this study was to describe and identify the weight of some key career indicators (KCI) on the competitive level of retirement (professional vs. non-professional) of Portuguese football players. Three thousand five hundred retired Portuguese football players born between 1950 and 1989, and registered on Portuguese Football Federation were...
Research question. The last decade has seen an increase in empirical research associated with dual careers in sport, with a particular focus on understanding and developing individual characteristics which are important to ensure success in sports and education or a vocation. More recent work has, however, also identified the importance of environm...
Research addressing dual career (DC) has recently become an important research focus in Europe. Following a DC pathway seems to differ depending on national policies and cultural factors affecting student-athletes. Therefore, this study aimed to examine Spanish female student-athletes’ perceptions of (a) generic DC competencies (in terms of importa...
Resumen:
Esta investigación presenta la validación al español de la Generic Multifaceted Automaticity Scale (GMAS) elaborada y validada en francés por Boiché et al. (2016). Esta escala mide tres propiedades de la automaticidad aplicadas a las actividades físicas: (a) la falta de intencionalidad para activar un comportamiento; (b) la eficiencia en s...
El GEPE (Grupo de Estudios en Psicología del Deporte y la Actividad Física) es un grupo de investigación que combina funciones de investigación, docencia y consultoría en el ámbito de la Psicología del Deporte. En cuanto a esta función de consultoría, y con la intención de integrar en su práctica aplicada la evidencia científica, este grupo ha desa...
El presente trabajo tiene el objetivo de describir la implementación de un Programa de Asistencia de Carrera Dual (PACD)
integrando la evidencia científica y la práctica aplicada en un club multideportivo privado especializado en deportes de agua. Con
la finalidad de responder a la demanda realizada por el Club Natació Sabadell (CNS) al Grup d’Estu...
El GEPE (Grupo de Estudios en Psicología del Deporte y la Actividad Física) es un grupo de investigación que combina funciones de investigación, docencia y consultoría en el ámbito de la Psicología del Deporte. En cuanto a esta función de consultoría, y con la intención de integrar en su práctica aplicada la evidencia científica, este grupo ha desa...
In book: The Routledge international encyclopedia of sport and exercise psychologyPublisher: Routledge
Following the CHIP tool (i.e., Context, How, Issues and Population), and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis method (PRISMA) we conducted a systematic review on interventions with athletes using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT; Ellis, 1957). A literature search was undertaken on the following databases: We...
In recent years, extreme sport-related pursuits including climbing have emerged not only as recreational activities but as competitive sports. Today, sport climbing is a rapidly developing, competitive sport included in the 2020 Olympic Games official program. Given recent developments, the understanding of which factors may influence actual climbi...
RESUMEN El propósito de este trabajo es doble: (a) describir los aspectos motivacionales y beneficios que obtienen los exdeportistas de élite que se mantienen físicamente activos y las barreras que perciben los físicamente inactivos, y (b) probar un modelo motivacional que pueda predecir la práctica de actividad física en esta población. Se realizó...
While dual career support providers (DCSPs) are important (European Commission, 2012 European Commission. (2012). EU guidelines on dual Careers of athletes: Recommended policy Actions in support of dual Careers in high-performance sport. Brussels: Author. [Google Scholar]), little is known on their competencies required to support student-athletes...
El propósito de este trabajo es doble. Por un lado, pretende describir los aspectos motivacionales y beneficios que obtienen los exdeportistas de élite que se mantienen físicamente activos después de la retirada y las barreras que perciben los exdeportistas físicamente inactivos, comparando los niveles de actividad física que reportan ambos grupos....
This study examined how goal-directed self-talk may help basketball players to self-regulate in stereotypical competitive situations: seconds before a challenging game, while clearly winning or clearly losing, and at the close of a tight game. Participants were recruited in groups of three to four, until preliminary inspection of the data indicated...
The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to describe the motivational aspects and gains obtained by physically active former elite athletes and the barriers experienced by inactive former elite athletes comparing their reported exercise amount, and (b) to test whether the different motivations would predict their reported exercise amount. Using a...
The purpose of this study was to analyse the retirement of elite football players in Portugal. Specifically, the quality of retirement and the resources available were evaluated. To develop an understanding of the process of the sporting retirement of elite football players we used data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with ninety professi...
This program had the goal to implement an individualized intervention based on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) to explore the beliefs, motivations and perceived barriers to re-engage in healthy PA years after retirement from elite sport.
After retiring from elite sports, maintaining healthy levels of physical activity (PA) might be chal...
The aim of this study was to explore the process of career termination of elite soccer players, comparing the quality and the resources to support career termination over the last three decades. To this end, was developed a questionnaire defined by four sections: (a) biographical data, (b) athletic career, (c) quality of career termination and (d)...