The mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction in the link between parental expectations and competitive state anxiety among adolescent tennis players.

Front Psychol · 2026 · PMC13189965 · PMID 42183512

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Although the structural model confirmed that parental expectations also thwarted the athletes’ sense of autonomy, the specific indirect pathway via autonomy to pre-competitive anxiety failed to reach statistical significance.

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