Which Mental Toughness Groups Do Your Athletes Belong To?
Paul Odlin • July 3, 2023
More and more coaches are thinking about mental toughness when working with athletes, but do you really know how mentally tough they are?
I implemented a statistical technique that groups athletes who are most alike on the eight dimensions. This method essentially looks at the athlete’s score for all of the dimensions and then looks at another athlete’s scores for the dimensions and says “OK, you two have similar scores, let’s group you two together”. Then, it does that for all of the athletes in the study until all athletes have been assigned to a group. Once the statistical technique is finished doing its thing, each athlete ends up with a group number.
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