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What Is Known About Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Among Sport Coaches?: A Scoping Review
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Physiology, Nutrition and Biomechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8740-1322
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Physiology, Nutrition and Biomechanics. The School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9921-6586
School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5513-6015
Department of Sport and Social Sciences, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6911-1302
2025 (English)In: International Sport Coaching Journal, ISSN 2328-918X, E-ISSN 2328-9198, Vol. 12, no 2, p. 228-239Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Mindfulness and self-compassion are two constructs positively related to well-being and mental health outside sport. Within sport, these constructs are emerging in research, yet the extant work has primarily been conducted with athlete samples. The aim of this scoping review was to provide a broad synthesis of the literature on mindfulness and self-compassion among coaches. Fourteen articles were included, 11 of them published 2019–2022. Of the 14 publications, the concepts studied were mindfulness (n = 10), self-compassion (n = 2), and a combination of both (n = 2). The samples were predominantly male coaches (68.7%), and most of the studies targeted coaches at the elite or competitive level. The most common area studied was developing and testing interventions and programs, followed by depicting relationships of mindfulness or self-compassion with desirable outcomes. This review significantly extends the current knowledge by illuminating critical issues in this rapidly moving area of research; the need for conceptual and contextual clarity of mindfulness and self-compassion; methodological considerations, such as measures that may allow reliable comparison across studies; and the need to further explore the potential benefits of mindfulness and self-compassion for coaches for sustainability and performance.

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Human Kinetics, 2025. Vol. 12, no 2, p. 228-239
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elite sport, mental health, well-being, sustainability
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Applied Psychology Sport and Fitness Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-8123DOI: 10.1123/iscj.2023-0066ISI: 001165989100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005142797OAI: oai:DiVA.org:gih-8123DiVA, id: diva2:1840081
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