Obsessive passion is related to greater emotional reactivity following success and failure in sport

What is it about?

Passion plays a key role in the emotions experienced by athletes. However, results for this study suggest that obsessive, but not harmonious, passion is related to a greater emotional reactivity when recalling success and failure in their sport

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Why is it important?

Having an obsessive passion for one's sport increases the emotional reactivity of individual effects of success