Características personológicas positivas en deportistas de alto rendimiento

Abstract

Positive psychology addresses positive aspects, experiences and traits, as well as studies of programs that help improve the subject's quality of life by preventing or reducing possible mental illnesses. Among the traits that positive psychology addresses are positive emotions, optimism, resilience, self-efficacy, coping strategies, self-regulation, etc. Some studies where these strengths were evaluated, showed that possessing them generates greater states of psychological and physical well-being, adaptive coping behaviors, disease reduction, life satisfaction, etc. Although it is true, there have been investigations that evaluate these variables separately in some populations, not enough references are recorded regarding the study of optimism, self-efficacy and coping strategies in high performance athletes. In fact, psychology is currently trying to rescue its initial study object which was the positive features of the human being and not the pathology. In this sense, this research aimed to describe optimism, self-efficacy and coping strategies as predictors of high sports performance.