Athletic Performance and Psychological Resilience
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This study investigates how higher psychological resilience and physical performance are enabled by mental development, mental hardness, lexical memory, and conditional motivation. It investigates how the psychological factors enable long-term motivation, disease avoidance, and mental improvement—factors that all come together to make the athlete more resilient both psychologically and physically.
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Language-Based Memory; Mental Toughness; Psychological Resilience; Performance-Based Motivation; Mental Progress; Physical Performance

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Akram, M., Maqbool, T., Hasan, M. K., Abdulghafoor, H. A., Khan, F. S., Ozdemir, F. A., & Sołowski, G. (2025). Athletic Performance and Psychological Resilience. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, 2(2), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.58578/amjsai.v2i2.5203

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Gross, J. J. (2002). Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences. Psychophysiology, 39(3), 281-291.
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