Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness

TY - JOUR

T1 - Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction

T2 - The Moderating Role of Mindfulness

AU - Chen, Lung Hung

AU - Wu, Chia Huei

AU - Chang, Jen Ho

N1 - Funding Information: Lung Hung Chen’s research on gratitude was supported by Ministry of Education (2012 project of elastic salary for outstanding scholar, 1010186882) and Ministry of Science and Technology (103-22628-H-179-001-MY2), Taiwan, R.O.C. Publisher Copyright: © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

PY - 2017/8/1

Y1 - 2017/8/1

N2 - Life satisfaction is a critical index of well-being and is well documented in the literature as a means of protecting athletes from stress. However, minimal research has focused on the factors that contribute to life satisfaction in sports. Accordingly, we adopted the positive psychology perspective and proposed that gratitude would relate to athletes’ life satisfaction. Additionally, we further suggested that mindfulness would strengthen the relationship between gratitude and athletes’ life satisfaction. Athletes completed measurements, and the results, which indicated that athletes with higher levels of gratitude exhibited increased life satisfaction when they had higher levels of mindfulness, supported our expectations. The implications and applications are discussed in terms of mindfulness.

AB - Life satisfaction is a critical index of well-being and is well documented in the literature as a means of protecting athletes from stress. However, minimal research has focused on the factors that contribute to life satisfaction in sports. Accordingly, we adopted the positive psychology perspective and proposed that gratitude would relate to athletes’ life satisfaction. Additionally, we further suggested that mindfulness would strengthen the relationship between gratitude and athletes’ life satisfaction. Athletes completed measurements, and the results, which indicated that athletes with higher levels of gratitude exhibited increased life satisfaction when they had higher levels of mindfulness, supported our expectations. The implications and applications are discussed in terms of mindfulness.

KW - Broaden and build effect

KW - Mindful attention

KW - Well-being

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973617054&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s10902-016-9764-7

DO - 10.1007/s10902-016-9764-7

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84973617054

SN - 1389-4978

VL - 18

SP - 1147

EP - 1159

JO - Journal Of Happiness Studies

JF - Journal Of Happiness Studies

IS - 4

ER -