POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH IN SPORTS: DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT FOR POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN ATHLETES

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Juan Diego Betancur Arias*

A theoretical model is proposed to address positive mental health in sport (PMHS) under the documentary review technique. The model is focused on the protective factors of athletes and positive indicators of health in sport, whose dimensions are theoretically based on physical wellbeing, prosocial relationships, personal project, emotional management and self-control, and sporting well-being. This study presents sport as a suitable field with direct inference of mental health through which the relationship between sport and mental health is identified to be treated from the field of psychology with bases of salutogenesis and eugenics to obtain a superior mental health. There are few studies in sports psychology from the positive approach, which gives support to generate an instrument that allows the measurement and validation of what is theoretically proposed.