most utilised instrument to measure Mental Toughness in sport (Gucciardi, Hanton, & Mallett,
2012). To date, preliminary research (Gucciardi et al., 2012; Perry et al., 2013) examining
the factorial validity of the MTQ48 in athlete samples has yielded equivocal findings. The aim
of this paper was to re-examine the factorial validity of the four-and six-factor models of the
MTQ48 in moderate (n= 480) and large (n= 1206) independent student athlete samples …