Sport psychology has emerged as a critical discipline in understanding and enhancing athletic performance, mental resilience, and overall well-being in sports. This letter synthesizes current knowledge and proposes future directions for research and practice in the field. Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of psychological interventions, including cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness training, and mental skills development, in optimizing athletic performance across various sports and competitive levels. The growing recognition of mental health challenges among athletes has further highlighted the need for comprehensive psychological support systems within sports organizations. Additionally, technological innovations such as biofeedback and virtual reality are creating new opportunities for personalized mental training and performance enhancement. Despite these advancements, significant gaps remain, particularly in cross-cultural applications, lifespan approaches to athlete development, and the ethical integration of emerging technologies. Future research should prioritize interdisciplinary collaboration, culturally sensitive interventions, and longitudinal studies to better understand the psychological demands of athletes at different career stages. By addressing these challenges, sport psychology can continue to evolve as both a scientific discipline and an applied practice, ultimately contributing to the holistic development of athletes worldwide. This letter calls for strengthened partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and sports organizations to bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring that psychological insights translate into meaningful benefits for athletes at all levels of competition.

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of art therapy on the mental health and rehabilitation of the reading disorder of the 6th grade student and it was a qualitative case study, the participants of this research were selected using the purpose-based sampling method. A 12-year-old student with a reading disorder and tensions in the family to promote mental health and rehabilitate his reading disorder from a set of art therapy techniques and methods (painting and storytelling) and 12 steps to treat reading disorders Dr. Mostafa Tabrizi and the suggested exercises were used in this book; It should be mentioned that the CSI-4 questionnaire was used in two stages to find out about the student's mental health, and the Godinaf dummy test was also used to make sure of his intelligence. The results and findings of several treatment sessions showed that art therapy has accelerated the treatment process. It is one of the most effective ways to treat reading disorder and improve mental health.

The Purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological health and quality of life in Hamedani atheletes. The statistical socity was all of hamedani atheletes in 1389 who had been working out three times a week for six mouths ranging from 35 or older years of age. A list of sport clubs was prepared from five greographical areas in Hamedan. There were two sports clubs with required qualifications. Out of 10 femal and 10 male clubs (n=130), five clubs were selected for each following clustering method of sampling (n=100). Data collection was done by using Questionnare of Psychology Health And Quality Of Life. The obtained data were analysed for degree of correlation using Pearson correlation to indicate that that there was a significant correlation between the psychological health and quality of life in hamedani atheletes in the p-value<0.01.

The present study was designed and conducted with the aim of the effect of belief in the hereafter and worldliness on mental health in athletes. The method of the present study is a field study. The present study is one of the applied researches. The statistical population of the present study included all professional athletes, the exact number of whom was not available. According to the available selection according to the Cochran sample size formula in the uncertainty of the community, 384 people were identified as the research sample. Finally, after distributing and collecting research questionnaires, 354 questionnaires were analyzed. The instruments of the present study included three questionnaires of 28 general health questions (4 components of physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction and depression), a researcher-made questionnaire with 7 questions of belief in the hereafter and also a researcher-made questionnaire with 10 questions of worldliness. In the present study, the structural equation method was used to analyze the research data. The whole process of data analysis was performed in SPSS and PLS software. According to the results of the research model, it was found that according to the level of t-relationships, it was found that belief in secularism has an effect on mental health of-0. 267. The results also showed that belief in the hereafter has an effect on mental health of 0. 603.

AbstractThe aim of this study was to Investigating the relationship between resilience and psychological well-being of individual athletes with the mediating role of perceived stress. The statistical population of this study consisted of female athletes in Taekwondo and Karate at the championship level and at the level of national teams and national titles in the youth and adolescents. The sample size was 594 and the sampling method was stratified random. Data collection tools included Reef Psychological Welfare Questionnaire (2002), Cohen Perceived Stress Questionnaire (1983) and Connor-Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire. Structural equations were used to analyze the data using PLS software. The results of this study showed that there was a significant positive relationship between resilience and perceived stress with psychological well-being and also positive relationship between perceived stress and resilience. According to these findings, coaches and athletes need to pay more attention to the role of resilience in various aspects of athletes' personality in promoting mental health and athletic performance.

Background and aims: Stress and anxiety are important factors that can highly affect athletes' performance. They can also influence the mental and physical heath of the athletes. The aim of this study was to compare the stress-coping styles in two groups of athletes and non-athletes and evaluating its relationship with their mental health.Methods: One hundred athletes were selected randomly and 100 non-athletes were voluntarily participated in this study. Both groups answered the standard Yoo coping styles and Goldberg general health questionnaires. Relevant statistical tests were used for data analysis.Results: Athletes in comparison with non-athletes used problem-focused and emotion focused coping styles more frequently, but, they used avoidant-coping styles less frequently (P<0.01). Also, in the former group, while the application of problem- and emotion-focused coping-styles were correlated with increase in mental health, avoidant coping styles were correlated with decrease in mental health. In contrast, in non-athletes, using problem-focused and avoidant coping styles were correlated with increase and decrease in mental health, respectively (P<0.05). Regression analysis demonstrated that stress-coping styles could largely predict the mental health variation in athletes and nonathletes groups (P<0.05).Conclusion: Findings of this study provide more support for the importance of coping styles and its relationship with mental health in stress situations such as sport fields.

Aims: The present study is carried out with the purpose of determining the predictability of psychological health, by cognitive emotion regulation style, used by elite athletes. Methodology: A sample of 385 (285 male and 100 female) elite athletes were chosen using cluster random sampling. Participants completed Mental Health Inventory (MHI) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version. Analysis of the data involved Pierson’ s correlation and multivariate regression analyses. Results: Results indicated signifi cant relationship between cognitive emotion regulation styles and psychological health components. Results of regression analysis indicated that among styles of cognitive emotion regulation, Positive refocusing and positive reappraisal can positively predict the psychological well-being. Moreover, psychological distress can predicted positively by catastrophizing and also Positive refocusing can negatively predict psychological distress. Conclusion: As results indicates, the strategies employed by athletes in order to regulate their emotions can play a significant role in the determination of their psychological health. Strengthening the adaptive cognitive emotion regulation should be regarded as therapeutic and educational goal in enhancing the mental health in that athletes could use strategies that influence their appraisal of the situation to create the most appropriate emotional climate for competition.

Background and Objective: Mental health is one of the most important issues, has attracted the attention of many researchers. Since, the body and mind mutually influence each other and health of these two categories, were covers the human public health, therefore, recognize the continuous effects oneach other, seem to be necessary. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to describe the mental health of Iranian elite athletes.Methods: The present research method was descriptive - survey. NEO-AC test, Zuckerman test and general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) were applied to measure personality characteristics, sensation seeking, and mental health respectively, on 295 athletes who attended various national team camps during the year 2013. Results: The results indicated that standard scores for the majority of athletes in neurotic responses (50%) were moderate, but for extroversion (97%), openness (97%), agreeability (87%), and consciousness (60%), were high. The standard scores were moderate for most athletes in sensation seeking (70%). Standard scores were also average and above (46-78%) for all elements of mental health.Conclusion: Totally, it can be concluded that the state of affairs of Iranian elite athletes in mental health and sensation seeking is desirably. Designing training programs seems necessary for neurotic component among elite athletes. Moreover, moderating camping conditions and teaching life skills will help to improve athletes in their Neurotic reactions.

Objective: The aim of the present research was to investigate the impact of positive psychology and visualization techniques on the mental health of injured athletes.Method: This study was applied in nature, and in terms of data collection, it was a survey and correlational research. The statistical population included 500 organized athletes from Zanjan County in 2024 across various sports disciplines, all of whom had at least two years of experience. A total of about 200 injured athletes were identified, and based on Cochran's formula, 131 individuals were selected as the sample using cluster random sampling and purposeful selection according to the inclusion criteria for the study. In this research, a researcher-made package based on the Oshea & Moran (2019) training program was used for mental imagery training. The positive psychology training by Susan Quilliam (2003) was also conducted over 12 sessions. The Psychological Needs in Sport Questionnaire by Vallerand et al. (2006) was administered as a pre-test and post-test.Results: The mental health scores of injured athletes across different groups showed significant differences (P=0.01). In the group receiving positive psychology training, the mean difference was 4.20, and the t-value was (3.402) at a significance level of 0.02, indicating a significant positive difference. In the visualization group, the mean difference was 3.99, with a t-value of (2.314) at a significance level of 0.03, demonstrating a positive and significant effect of visualization. In the combined group of positive psychology and visualization, the mean difference was 10.17, with a t-value of (5.724) at a significance level of 0.01, showing the highest increase in mental health scores among injured athletes. However, in the control group, no significant difference was observed with a significance level of 0.51 (P>0.05).Conclusions: Athletes face psychological issues due to the absence from competitions and decreased self-confidence after injuries. In this study, positive psychology techniques and visualization had positive effects on the mental health of these athletes and can be used as a practical approach in sports teams for injured players. The educational-psychological intervention, including training coping skills and stress management, helps athletes better cope with the psychological challenges arising from injuries and achieve better conditions.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of type of behavioral brain system on athletic and non-athletic psychological health. Participants included 312 boys and girls aged between 18 and 37 years old. After examining the type of personality and gender system and considering the level of activity in 8 groups. Multivariate analysis of variance analysis showed that participants with behavioral activation system had depression, anxiety and stress less than participants with behavioral inhibition system (p <0. 05). Boys had higher psychological health than girls (p <0. 05). Non-athlete girls with behavioral inhibition system had the highest rates of depression, anxiety and stress and boys and girls with behavioral activation system had the lowest level of depression, anxiety and stress (p <0. 05). As a result, it can be stated that exercise and behavioral activating personality system make boys and girls more psychologically healthy.