Resilience and Emotional Reactions to Failure Mediated by Self-compassion and Emotion Regulation in Martial Artists

Introduction: the present study aimed to examine a proposed model for the relationship between resilience and emotional reactions to failure, mediated by self-compassion and emotion regulation (er) among martial artists. materials and methods: a total of 286 athletes (191 males & 95 females; mean±sd age: 20.98±3.30 years) from different disciplines of martial arts (taekwondo, karate, judo, & wushu) engaged in league championship participated in the study. athletes completed the sports mental toughness questionnaire (smtq), the positive and negative affect schedule (panas), the self-compassion scale (scs), and the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (cerq). the proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling. results: the obtained results revealed that resilience has direct and indirect effects on emotional reactions to failure. furthermore, self-compassion and maladaptive er play a partial negative mediating role between resilience and emotional reactions to failure. however, the mediating role of adaptive er was not significant. conclusion: the study data predicted negative emotional reactions to failure based on resilience, mediated by self-compassion and er among martial artists; thus, these data indicate the necessity of paying attention to the development of resilience in martial artists. this method emphasizes self-compassion and the reduction of maladaptive er for better recovery of failure and reduces its effects.