Exploring the role of self-compassion in women athletes' emotionally painful experiences of injury in sport

Injury is a common and emotionally painful aspect of sport participation for female athletes. Playing through injury is normalized in sport culture; unfortunately, this practice holds short- and long-term health risks. Self-compassion has been endorsed as a resource for female athletes coping with i...

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Other Authors: Kowalski, Kent C.
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-08-2156