From Resistance to Transformation: A Review of Resilience in Sports

A literature review was conducted on the research contributions on resilience in sports between 2010 and 2020 in a sample of 239 articles, which responded to inclusion criteria such as original articles; literature reviews; qualitative, quantitative, or mixed published studies; thesis or degree works; and book chapters. The search was carried out in PubMed, Ebsco Host, Science Direct, Scopus, and PsycINFO databases. It was found that research and contributions on resilience in sports are numerous and applied to a great diversity of sports modalities and at the level of physical activity and formative and competitive sports. Quantitative -descriptive studies were predominantly found; however, different methodological approaches are highlighted. It was also observed that the studies were oriented towards adult and adolescent populations, and a third focus of interest is literature reviews. The fields in which resilience in sports was explored were associated with performance in competition, coping with adversity, stressful situations, or burnout, as a motivational dimension. It is concluded that it is necessary to carry out specific studies by sports practice and types of sports, and the related psycho -social phenomena, such as the influence of injury recovery, moods, and adverse extra -sports and extra -competition situations.