Profesora Rachel Nunes da Cunha:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Evaluating psychosocial variables and social identity in Brazilian paralympic athletes," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2018-09-14 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation.

The review itself is due 2018-10-05.

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/369?key=ACCESS_KEY

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
South University
edil.torres@sipsych.org



"Evaluating psychosocial variables and social identity in Brazilian paralympic athletes"

Abstract
The present study intended to evaluate psychosocial variables of Brazilian paralympic athletes, verify how these variables are related to athlete’s social identity and understand how paralympic athletes perceive their identity. The questionnaire was answered by 153 Brazilian disabled athletes, with age ranging from 18 to 56 years old (M = 31.91 years, SD = 9.46). Results indicated that disabled athletes have higher self-esteem, self-efficacy, internal locus of control and positive well-being, while having lower external locus of control, as well as negative well-being. A positive correlation between social identity and self-esteem was observed. At last, results showed that an athlete’s identity is directly related to a person overcoming his or hers disability and sports gain.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP