Abstract des Autors

Athletes and others charged with their development (e.g. sport psychologists) strive to attain and sustain high levels of mental toughness or catalyze these efforts. This chapter focuses on the scientific interest to take stock of the accomplishments within the past two decades of conceptual and empirical research on mental toughness. It considers new horizons for the study and conceptual evolution of this concept in future work. The 4Cs model (control, commitment, challenge, and confidence) has been the most preferred conceptual framework for the study of mental toughness in sport and physical activity settings to date, particularly in recent years. The chapter presents a bibliometric analysis of the mental toughness literature to provide readers with an overall sense of trends within this body of work. Several key findings can be gleaned from this bibliometric analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on mental toughness in sport and physical activity contexts.