Relationship Between Harmonious Passion And Psychological Well-Being Of Female Athletes Of Team Sports

Background: Passion is generally seen as a strong inclination towards an activity that people love or value, and in which they invest time and energy, which means to become passionate about an activity, one must occupy a prominent place in one's life and eventually the person will become something that he often engage in. It must be a central part of this person's identity to become passionate for some activity. In this way, people who are passionate about any activity such as cricket, they will not only play, but they will become professional players and participate in competitive sports. Objectives: This paper is a part of PhD Thesis and it covered one of the objectives "to explore the relationship between Harmonious Passion and six dimensions of Psychological Well-Being among female athletes" and an overall relationship between passions and Psychological Well-Being is also discussed. Methodology: The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A total number of 100 female athletes between the age range of 19 and 24 participated in this study. Data was collected from four different universities of Lahore. Two different instruments were used for data collection that included: "The Passion Scale", composed of two subscales, each of which contains 7 items that evaluate the two types of passion, that is, harmonious passion and obsessive passion and "Psychological well-being scales, composed of six subscales according to the six factors of positive functioning". Results: A significantly positive relationship was observed between Harmonious Passion and Psychological Wellbeing of female athletes (r= 0.901). At the same time, a significantly positive relationship was found between Harmonious Passion and six dimensions of Psychological Wellbeing including, Positive relationships with others (r= 0.928); Autonomy (r= 0.860); Environmental Mastery (r= 0.892); Personal Growth (r= 0.846); Purpose of life (r= 0.850); and Self-Acceptance (r= 0.851).