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Coping strategies preferred by adolescents when managing stress in sport - pilot study

BUREŠOVÁ, Iva, Tereza DEMLOVÁ and Kateřina BARTOŠOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Coping strategies preferred by adolescents when managing stress in sport - pilot study

Authors

BUREŠOVÁ, Iva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tereza DEMLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Kateřina BARTOŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Amsterdam, The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences, p. 240-254, 15 pp. 2016

Publisher

Future Academy

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/16:00092015

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

UT WoS

000390872300025

Keywords in English

stress in sport; coping; coping strategies; adolescence

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 30/3/2017 15:56, Mgr. Marie Skřivanová

Abstract

V originále

The aim of the study, which was carried out as a part of the research grant project "Psychological aspects of managing stress by top athletes in adolescence", was to map the occurrence of psychological aspects of possible overtraining in adolescent athletes in the Czech socio-cultural environment and to verify possible connections between the perceived level of training stress and coping strategies preferred by adolescent athletes, focusing on the relationship between the level of perceived stress and intensity of training. A quantitative design was used to carry out this research as well as a combination of three self-assessment methods: Training Distress Scale; Profile of Mood States and Children´s Coping Strategies Checklist. The research file contained 230 respondents aged 14-20 years: 147 boys (64%) and 83 girls (36%). The average age was 16.4 years. The most represented sports were football (N=72; 31%), athletics (N=25; 11%) and ice-hockey (N=17; 7%). Most of the respondents were members of sport clubs (N=177; 77%), 21 athletes were (9%) representatives of the CR in that particular sport and the most numbered group of respondents have been doing the sport for more than eight years (67%). The results showed a statistically significant difference between felt symptoms of overstrain after the training and in the following 24 hours. Respondents most often described the following combinations of emotional states in connection with the perceived stress: anger and depression; depression and tiredness; and confusion and tension. As far as coping strategies are concerned, respondents reached the highest average score in the Active strategy (2.44) and Strategy of avoiding (2.38) scales, which are more often practiced by athletes reporting a higher level of perceived stress. The highest scores were reached by respondents on the Direct problem-solving (M = 2.66) and Cognitive decision-making (M = 2.50) sub-scales.

Links

MUNI/A/1042/2015, interní kód MU
Name: Psychologické aspekty zvládání zátěže u vrcholových sportovců v adolescenci (Acronym: PACA)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A