- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Université Laval
2024
Université de Sherbrooke
2020-2024
The use of extreme weight-control behaviors is prevalent among adolescent athletes and may result from individual sport-specific factors. Weight-related maltreatment coaches parents, conformity to sport ethic norms have recently been linked the behaviors. This study aims investigate role weight-related parents in athletes. A sample 999 French-Canadian aged 14–17 years competing a variety sports completed an online survey assessing behaviors, norms. total 16.9% reported having adopted during...
Introduction Professional and student-athletes are at risk of developing symptoms eating disorders (ED), including drive for thinness muscularity due to personal factors (e.g., low self-esteem) sport-specific characteristics sport requirements). However, limited studies have focused on ED among NextGen athletes (identified in Canada as élite or relève ) who compete the provincial, national, international levels but not yet part national teams. As such, they access fewer financial resources...
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown disrupted the university sports season and had negative consequences on academic personal life of student-athletes, resulting in several psychological challenges. goal this study is to document symptoms mental illness among student-athletes during second wave Canada. It aims (a) assess prevalence (anxiety, depression, disordered eating, dangerous drinking) (b) identify which sociodemographic characteristics, impacts, levels perceived stress most influence these...
Disordered eating (DE) corresponds to the presence of fasting, food restriction, skipping meals or consuming appetite suppressants, excessive physical exercise, image distortion, dissatisfaction with body weight and shape, fear gain, desire for thinness. University student athletes are particularly at risk developing DE because they must adapt simultaneously demands adult life, university competitive high-level sports. This study aimed identify which psychological characteristics most...
The experience of sexual violence (SV) in sport can vary according to contextual factors such as its form, type perpetrator, and frequency acts that might impact the risk outcomes SV. This study aims explore heterogeneity SV experiences using latent class analysis compare victimization profiles based on personal characteristics well outcomes. A sample 1357 adolescent-athletes practicing an organized who reported was included study. Four were identified: (a) from authority figure (3.5%), (b)...
Abstract A few studies have examined mental illness symptoms in university student‐athletes during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but limited use of longitudinal design limits understanding progression these and mechanisms by which they developed. The present research aims to describe trajectory variation (anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption disorders, eating disorders) throughout test causality between perceived stress symptoms, identify individual characteristics (sociodemographic, stress,...