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Mental toughness is a key component of sports performance and success. Goal orientations are ways in which individuals perceive and pursue success and failure. Social emotional competence encompasses a set of skills including recognizing and managing our emotions, developing caring and concern for others, establishing positive relationships and making responsible decisions. The present study adopts a factorial design to determine the main and interaction effects of type of sports (individual and team) and gender on mental toughness, goal orientationsand social emotional competence and their dimensions. This study also employs a correlational design to determine whether mental toughness and goal orientations predict the social emotional competence among boys and girls involved in individual and team sports. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select a sample of 401 sports players, among whom 198 (102 boys and 96 girls) were involved in individual sports and 201 (102 boys and 101 girls) were involved in team sports. There was a significant influence of type of sports (individual and team) on the dimensions of mental toughness. A significant influence of gender on dimensionsof mental toughness, ego orientation and self-managementwas also observed. Predictors of social emotional competence have been discussed. Promoting mental toughness and task orientation among sports players will have a positive impact on their lives in sports and apart from sports making them more socially and emotionally competent.

Mental Toughness, Goal Orientation and Social Emotional Competence among Sports Players