Abstract
Despite the documented positive outcomes of sport-based life skills programmes, psychological well-being (PWB) frameworks have been largely absent from discourse and analyses in the life skills literature. This chapter outlines a conceptual model for understanding how sport/physical activity-based life skills programmes can promote eudaimonic PWB. In this model, it is proposed that life skills programmes foster eudaimonic aspects of PWB by supporting the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as well as the well-being enhancer of beneficence. Empirical evidence from across diverse versions of life skills programmes (e.g., sport, physical activity, school physical education, and education contexts) is used to support the conceptual model and to critically evaluate how psychological constructs, such as self-determination theory (SDT) and PWB, can advance theory and practice in the sport-based life skills interventions literature.