Cognitive psychology

Athletes

Process (computing)

Engineering

Social psychology

Multidisciplinary approach

Psychological resilience

Operating system

Computer science

Physiology

Thermodynamics

Physics

Psychology

Applied psychology

Physical therapy

Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Medicine

Resilience (materials science)

Clinical psychology

Perspective (graphical)

Stressor

Sport psychology

Sports science

Engineering ethics

Social science

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Athletes are exposed to various psychological and physiological stressors, such as losing matches and high training loads. Understanding and improving the resilience of athletes is therefore crucial to prevent performance decrements and psychological or physical problems. In this review, resilience is conceptualized as a dynamic process of bouncing back to normal functioning following stressors. This process has been of wide interest in psychology, but also in the physiology and sports science literature (e.g. load and recovery). To improve our understanding of the process of resilience, we argue for a collaborative synthesis of knowledge from the domains of psychology, physiology, sports science, and data science. Accordingly, we propose a multidisciplinary, dynamic, and personalized research agenda on resilience. We explain how new technologies and data science applications are important future trends (1) to detect warning signals for resilience losses in (combinations of) psychological and physiological changes, and (2) to provide athletes and their coaches with personalized feedback about athletes' resilience.

Resilience in sports: a multidisciplinary, dynamic, and personalized perspective