Sport emotion and collective efficacy among healthy and disabled athletes

The purpose of this study was to investigate of collective efficacy and sport emotion and also the predictive factors of collective efficiency sources by sport emotion in healthy and disabled athletes which was done in a retrospective method. 41 disable athlete and 43 healthy athlete were selected by cluster sampling method from team sports. Sport emotion and collective efficacy questionnaire for Sports were used. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of variance and multiple regression at significant level 0.05. The results showed significant difference in sport emotion and collective efficacy among of healthy and disable athletes. Further analysis showed significant differences only in anxiety and anger between healthy and disabled athletes groups. In addition, sport emotions predicted 31% and 15% of collective efficacy variability in disabled and healthy athletes respectively. The importance of experiences and also anxiety and anger regulation in disabled sports and happiness in healthy athletes was discussed.