Delivering Setback Training Sessions to a University Sport Team: A Longitudinal Analysis

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Abstract

Collegiate athletes often experience setbacks to goals that are unpredictable and can be exacerbated by university/life stressors. Previous work has experimentally tested setback training sessions for effective setback management; however, we sought to pilot the sessions in the ecological context of a university team’s season. We conducted two sessions and measured wellbeing over three time-points. Ten Canadian athletes on a women’s university team participated. We employed descriptive analysis to identify if session learning occurred and repeated-measures ANCOVAs to detect changes in wellbeing outcomes over time. Although caution is warranted given the limited sample, our findings suggest feasibility of the training sessions in season, and that athletes’ setback rumination lowered, and positive affect and likelihood to seek support increased over time.

Authors

• Patti C. Parker, Thompson Rivers University

• Lia Daniels, University of Alberta

• Amber Mosewich, University of Alberta