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Additional file 1: Table 1. Resources shared with participants. Table 2. Interview Guide. Table 3. Means of Study Variables.

Regardless of the level of sport competition, setbacks are inevitable and can promote stress, requiring effective coping skills. Well-developed coping skills are required for athletes to not only reach their performance potential, but also to have healthy sport experiences. The purpose of the present study was to further explore setbacks and coping in sport experienced by a group of high-performance women athletes. Through exploration of their experiences, relevant setbacks and resultant coping efforts were identified, providing insight into the effectiveness of resources for this population, as well as areas of stress and coping deserving more attention. Using a phenomenological orientation, five high-performance women athletes were interviewed about their experiences with setbacks in sport. Thematic analysis revealed that poor performance, performance plateau and injury were common setback experiences. Managing setbacks involved having a positive approach, dealing with self-criticism, using social suppo...

Self-compassion has demonstrated many psychological benefits (Neff, 2009). In an effort to explore self-compassion as a potential resource for young women athletes, we explored relations among self-compassion, proneness to self-conscious emotions (i.e., shame, guilt-free shame, guilt, shame-free guilt, authentic pride, and hubristic pride), and potentially unhealthy self-evaluative thoughts and behaviors (i.e., social physique anxiety, obligatory exercise, objectified body consciousness, fear of failure, and fear of negative evaluation). Young women athletes (N = 151; Mage = 15.1 years) participated in this study. Self-compassion was negatively related to shame proneness, guilt-free shame proneness, social physique anxiety, objectified body consciousness, fear of failure, and fear of negative evaluation. In support of theoretical propositions, self-compassion explained variance beyond self-esteem on shame proneness, guilt-free shame proneness, shame-free guilt proneness, objectified body consciousness, fear of failure, and fear of negative evaluation. Results suggest that, in addition to self-esteem promotion, self-compassion development may be beneficial in cultivating positive sport experiences for young women.

ERLANDSON, M. C., L. B. SHERAR, A. D. MOSEWICH, K. C. KOWALSKI, D. A. BAILEY, and A. D. G. BAXTER-JONES. Does Controlling for Biological Maturity Improve Physical Activity Tracking? Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 800–807, 2011. Tracking of physical activity through childhood and adolescence tends to be low. Variation in the timing of biological maturation within youth of the same chronological age (CA) might affect participation in physical activity and may partially explain the low tracking. Purpose: To examine the stability of physical activity over time from childhood to late adolescence when aligned on CA and biological age (BA).Methods: A total of 91 males and 96 females aged 8–15 yr from the Saskatchewan Pediatric Bone Mineral Accrual Study (PBMAS) were assessed annually for 8 yr. BA was calculated as years from age at peak height velocity. Physical activity was assessed using the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children/Adolescents. Tracking was analyzed using intraclass correlations for both CA andBA (2-yr groupings). To be included in the analysis, an individual required a measure at both time points within an interval; however, notall individuals were present at all tracking intervals.Results: Physical activity tracking by CA 2-yr intervals were, in general, moderate inmales (r= 0.42–0.59) and females (r= 0.43–0.44). However, the 9- to 11-yr CA interval was low and nonsignificant (r= 0.23–0.30).Likewise, tracking of physical activity by BA 2-yr intervals was moderate to high in males (r= 0.44–0.60) and females (r= 0.39–0.62).Conclusions: Accounting for differences in the timing of biological maturity had little effect on tracking physical activity. However,point estimates for tracking are higher in early adolescence in males and to a greater extent in females when aligned by BA versus CA. This suggests that maturity may be more important in physical activity participation in females than males.Key Words:LONGITUDINAL,CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENT, PUBERTY Refereed/Peer-reviewed