Personal and Situational Variables That Describe Coping With Acute Stress in Competitive Sport

The authors examined the degree to which competitive basketball players in Australia were consistent in their cognitive appraisals and coping strategies in response to 4 types of stressful situations that they had experienced during previous basketball games as functions of perceived stress intensit...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 2000-08, Vol.140 (4), p.434-450
Main Authors: Anshel, Mark H., Wells, Bruce
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adaptation, Psychological - physiology
Adolescent
Adult
Applied psychology
Athletes
Basketball
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Competition
Competitive Behavior
Competitive sports
Coping
Coping strategies
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Individual Characteristics
Male
Middle Aged
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Racquet Sports
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Sport Psychology
Sports officiating
Sports psychology
Sports. Leisure
Stress
Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Table tennis
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Summary:The authors examined the degree to which competitive basketball players in Australia were consistent in their cognitive appraisals and coping strategies in response to 4 types of stressful situations that they had experienced during previous basketball games as functions of perceived stress intensity. The authors predicted that both approach and avoidance coping strategies would be dependent on the type of stressful event, in accord with the transactional model. The results supported that prediction: Approach strategies were more prevalent than avoidance strategies following 3 of the 4 events. Cognitive appraisals and perceived stress intensity also strongly influenced the participants' use of coping strategies, accounting for 34% of the variance.
ISSN:0022-4545
1940-1183
DOI:10.1080/00224540009600483