About this Research Topic
Endurance sports like running have increased in participation and popularity in recent years, and it is very common to find different mass participant sports events worldwide, gathering thousands of people (both as participants and as spectators). While endurance athletes’ performance-related investigations have been widely addressed, with special attention on elite athletes, much less has been done related to recreational endurance athletes, and within this wide population, many psychological dimensions remain unexplored. Although recently researchers started to study the psychological variables of participants in different endurance sports events, very little has been done concerning other socio-cultural groups, namely young athletes, older adults, disabled athletes, fans and hosts, pregnant women, cultural variables, or people doing exercise after recovering from a severe illness like COVID-19 or cancer.
Endurance sports proved to be beneficial and to provide many health benefits to the participants, and motivation and other psychological variables of endurance athletes like anxiety, resilience, mental toughness, or certain personality traits have been associated with public health. However, apart from recreational adult athletes, almost nothing has been analyzed about different psychological variables of young athletes, elderly athletes, or athletes with different levels of disability, and therefore, these socio-cultural groups remain unexplored. Moreover, nothing has been examined about the socio-psychological effects of endurance sports events on attendance or fans either.
In this Research Topic, we aim to cover this gap in literature collecting articles examining the psychological variables of unexplored socio-cultural groups such as (but not limited to):
• young athletes;
• older adults;
• disabled athletes;
• fans and hosts;
• pregnant women;
• cultural variables;
• people doing exercise after going through a severe illness (e.g., COVID-19 or cancer).
We are also particularly interested in articles about rarely analyzed variables related to amateur athletes like:
• body image,
• mental health,
• older or younger athletes,
• exercise addiction, or
• family context-related variables, and their psychological aspects.
For this Research Topic, welcome authors to submit research studies (e.g. Original Research) and review article types.
Image Credit - Shutterstock: Image ID: 240595447
Endurance sports proved to be beneficial and to provide many health benefits to the participants, and motivation and other psychological variables of endurance athletes like anxiety, resilience, mental toughness, or certain personality traits have been associated with public health. However, apart from recreational adult athletes, almost nothing has been analyzed about different psychological variables of young athletes, elderly athletes, or athletes with different levels of disability, and therefore, these socio-cultural groups remain unexplored. Moreover, nothing has been examined about the socio-psychological effects of endurance sports events on attendance or fans either.
In this Research Topic, we aim to cover this gap in literature collecting articles examining the psychological variables of unexplored socio-cultural groups such as (but not limited to):
• young athletes;
• older adults;
• disabled athletes;
• fans and hosts;
• pregnant women;
• cultural variables;
• people doing exercise after going through a severe illness (e.g., COVID-19 or cancer).
We are also particularly interested in articles about rarely analyzed variables related to amateur athletes like:
• body image,
• mental health,
• older or younger athletes,
• exercise addiction, or
• family context-related variables, and their psychological aspects.
For this Research Topic, welcome authors to submit research studies (e.g. Original Research) and review article types.
Image Credit - Shutterstock: Image ID: 240595447
Keywords: Endurance sports, psychological variables, amateur runners, young athletes, disabled athletes, body image, resilience, fans and hosts, Covid 19 effects, pregnant women, mass participant sport events
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