Maurizio Bertollo|Fabio Forzini|Sara Biondi|Massimiliano Di Liborio|Maria Grazia Vaccaro|Emmanouil Georgiadis|Cristiana Conti
How Does a Sport Psychological Intervention Help Professional Cyclists to Cope With Their Mental Health During the COVID-19 Lockdown?
University of Chieti-Pescara|University of Suffolk|Magna Graecia University|University of Suffolk|University of Chieti-Pescara
around world march due covid19 competitive sport calendars suddenly canceled jeopardizing training programs athletes moreover italy government banned nonessential travel across entire country beginning march consequently italian cyclists banned leaving homes therefore unable perform ordinary training activities italian association professional cyclists accpi early period noticed several cyclists experiencing worrying decrease mental wellbeing asked authors set online sport psychology intervention spi lockdown enhance athletes mental health number unprecedented events considerations aim current investigation assess italian cyclists mental health lockdown changes spi validated italian version sport mental health continuum short form sport mhcsfpresented study 1and applied sample italian professional cyclistspresented study 2prior spi achieve objectives reliability construct validity italian version sport mhcsf tested study 1 rmmanova tests run evaluate effect spi cyclists study 2 total 185 italian athletes involved validation mhc study 1 38 professional cyclists study 2 results study 1 suggested threefactor higher order model sport mhcsf model fit 2 df 471252 252 p amplt 0000 cfi 0951 rmsea 0049 rmr 0048 mcfa showed default model kept invariance among groups athletes ie female male individual team sports results study 2 highlighted professional cyclists followed spi able cope better psychological stressors showing improved wellbeing compared athletes significant differences found emotional social wellbeing present multistudy paper contributes theoretical field validated measure sport mhcsf translated italian language culture also provides practical implications related cases reduced mental health due injury illness similar situations home confinement future