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Sammanfattning: The purpose was to investigate whether there was any change in psychological well-being during a 20 days period during rehabilitation from sport injuries. Also, one second purpose was to investigate the within-person relationship between affects, social support, adherence to rehabilitation and psychological well-being during rehabilitation. Data collection was conducted via contact with three physiotherapy clinics, where athletes who suffered a sports injury that needed rehabilitation of 30 days or more was asked to participate. In total 81 athletes decided to participate in the study. The athletes who decided to participate were, on three occasions at a 10 day intervals, asked to complete a questionnaire. The result showed that the psychological well-being changed between the three measurement occasions. Also, positive- as well as negative affects were the psychological factors that had the strongest relationship to psychological well-being. Based on the results of this study, further recommendations will be that physioterapists and significant others facilitates positive affective responses to improve the athletes psychological well-being during rehabilitation.