Relationship Between Mental Well-being of Tennis Referees with Perceived Threat of Covid-19, Future Anxiety and Resilience

Document Type : Original Article

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1 University of Isfahan

2 Faculty member of university of Isfahan

10.22034/mmbj.2024.62420.1101

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Objectives: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the mental well-being of tennis umpires and the perceived threat of COVID-19, future anxiety, and resilience. Methods & Materials: The descriptive-correlation study was conducted on 43 (mean age= 30.28±7.28) Iranian tennis umpires who were selected through convenience sampling. Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, Conway et al.'s Perceived Threat Questionnaire, Zaleski's Future Anxiety Scale, and Connor and Davidson's Resilience Questionnaire were used to measure mental well-being, the perceived threat of Covid-19, future anxiety, and resilience, respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficient, Spearman's correlation coefficient, independent t-test, and Multivariate regression model were conducted to analyze the collected data. Results: Results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between mental well-being and future anxiety and a positive and significant relationship between mental well-being and resilience. Also, results showed that the significant effect of resilience on predicting the mental well-being of tennis umpires. Conclusions: It seems that judges who have higher resilience experience higher mental well-being and possibly lower level of anxiety.

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Mind, Movement, and Behavior
Volume 3, Issue 1
May 2024
Pages 149-163

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  • Receive Date: 09 July 2024
  • Revise Date: 12 July 2024
  • Accept Date: 12 July 2024

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