title: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Among Adolescent Athletes: A Bayesian Multilevel Model Predicting Sport Enjoyment and Commitment.
abstract: Efforts to regulate emotions can influence others, and interpersonal emotion regulation within teams may affect athletes' own affective and motivational outcomes. We examined adolescent athletes' (N = 451, N teams = 38) self- and interpersonal emotion regulation, as well as associations with peer climate, sport enjoyment, and sport commitment within a multilevel model of emotion regulation in teams. Results of multilevel Bayesian structural equation modeling showed that athletes' self-worsening emotion regulation strategies were negatively associated with enjoyment while other-improving emotion regulation strategies were positively associated enjoyment and commitment. The team-level interpersonal emotion regulation climate and peer motivational climates were also associated with enjoyment and commitment. Team-level factors moderated some of the relationships between athletes' emotion regulation with enjoyment and commitment. These findings extend previous research by examining interpersonal emotion regulation within teams using a multilevel approach, and they demonstrate the importance of person- and team-level factors for athletes' enjoyment and commitment.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Toronto.
authors.forename: Katherine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Tamminen
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Ottawa.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaudreau
authors.affiliation: 3 University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: Carolyn E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: McEwen
authors.affiliation: 3 University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: Peter R E
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Crocker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D057181:Pleasure / Q000502:physiology*; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Bayesian structural equation model; emotion regulation; emotional climate; peer motivational climate; team sport; youth sport