{"title":"Extraversion as a personality dimension moderating the relationship between caring climate and athletes’ relationships with teammates","authors":"Congtian Xu, Mary D. Fry, Haiying Long","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102860","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Researchers have identified many benefits for athletes who experience a caring climate (Fry & Gano-Overway, 2010). Despite the strong research line identifying the positive effects of a caring climate, little attention has been directed to exploring potential moderators that might alter its influence. To this end, the researchers of the current study collaborated with a school district in the Mountain West region of the U.S. Middle and high school athletes (N = 180) were recruited to examine the moderating effect of low extraversion versus high extraversion on the relationships between athletes' perceptions of a caring climate and their relationship with teammates. Moderation analysis indicated that as athletes’ perceptions of the caring climate increased, relationships with teammates displayed an upward trend for both low and high extraverted athletes, with the strongest trend occurring for low extraverted athletes. Findings from this study not only confirmed the positive effect of a caring climate on youth athletes' sports experiences but also considered personality factors, perhaps for the first time. Lastly, results suggest if young athletes are low in extraversion and in a caring climate, they may find the team environment more conducive to building relationships with their peers, which is an important outcome of the youth sports experience (Ullrich-French & Smith, 2006).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102860"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029225000597","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/4/19 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Researchers have identified many benefits for athletes who experience a caring climate (Fry & Gano-Overway, 2010). Despite the strong research line identifying the positive effects of a caring climate, little attention has been directed to exploring potential moderators that might alter its influence. To this end, the researchers of the current study collaborated with a school district in the Mountain West region of the U.S. Middle and high school athletes (N = 180) were recruited to examine the moderating effect of low extraversion versus high extraversion on the relationships between athletes' perceptions of a caring climate and their relationship with teammates. Moderation analysis indicated that as athletes’ perceptions of the caring climate increased, relationships with teammates displayed an upward trend for both low and high extraverted athletes, with the strongest trend occurring for low extraverted athletes. Findings from this study not only confirmed the positive effect of a caring climate on youth athletes' sports experiences but also considered personality factors, perhaps for the first time. Lastly, results suggest if young athletes are low in extraversion and in a caring climate, they may find the team environment more conducive to building relationships with their peers, which is an important outcome of the youth sports experience (Ullrich-French & Smith, 2006).
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Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.
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