Exploring Relations of Wellness and Athletic Coping Skills of Collegiate Athletes: Implications for Sport Performance

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1043-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Von Guenthner ◽  
Jon Hammermeister
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Mental Preparation

In exploring the relationship between wellness and athletic performance, this study assessed the link between wellness, as defined by a high score on five wellness dimensions of emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being, with psychological variables thought to be related to athletic performance as measured by athletes' self-report of specific athletic coping skills. 142 collegiate athletes completed a survey composed of the Optimal Living Profile to measure wellness dimensions and the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory to measure specific psychological variables. Analysis indicated that athletes scoring higher on the dimensions of wellness also scored significantly higher on athletic coping skills. Specifically, male athletes who scored higher on wellness also reported higher scores on coachability, concentration, goal setting/mental preparation, and peaking under pressure, and female athletes who scored higher on wellness also reported higher scores in coping with adversity, coachability, concentration, goal setting/mental preparation, and freedom from worry. Various dimensions of wellness seem related to better performance by involving the athletic coping skills of intercollegiate athletes. Implications for coaches and sport psychologists are also discussed.

Psychological Skills and Exceptional Athletic Performance

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Mahoney ◽  
Tyler J. Gabriel ◽  
T. Scott Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Psychological Skills ◽  
Anxiety Management ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Ideal

To assess psychological skills relevant to exceptional athletic performance, a 51-item questionnaire was administered to a national sample of 713 male and female athletes from 23 sports. The athlete sample comprised 126 elite competitors, 141 preelite athletes, and 446 nonelite collegiate athletes. Sixteen leading sport psychologists also completed the questionnaire as they thought the ideal athlete might. Omnibus, individual item, discriminant, regression, factor, and cluster analyses all revealed significant differences among the athlete subsamples. The themes of concentration, anxiety management, self-confidence, mental preparation, and motivation were seen to have potential importance in skill-level differentiation, although age-difference confounds as well as gender and sport differences may have been involved. The ideal profile constructed by the sport psychologists generally paralleled the skill differences encountered, although the elite athletes did not report selected amplitudes in the profile.

The Relationship Between the Perceived Motivational Climate in Elite Collegiate Sport and Athlete Psychological Coping Skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Mary D. Fry ◽  
Candace M. Hogue ◽  
Susumu Iwasaki ◽  
Gloria B. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Collegiate Sport ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychological Coping

Psychological coping skills in sport are believed to be central to athlete performance and well-being. This study examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate in elite collegiate sport teams and player psychological coping skills use. Division I athletes (N = 467) completed a questionnaire examining their perceptions of how caring, task-, and ego-involving their teams were and their use of sport specific psychological coping skills (i.e., coping with adversity, peaking under pressure, goal setting/mental preparation, concentration, freedom from worry, confidence/achievement motivation, and coachability). Structural equation modeling revealed positive relationships between perceptions of a task-involving climate and confidence/achievement motivation (β = 0.42) and goal setting/mental preparation (β = 0.27). Caring climate perceptions were positively associated with coachability (β = 0.34). These findings illustrate how encouraging athletes and coaches to create a caring, task-involving climate may facilitate athletes’ use of psychological coping skills and set athletes up to perform their best and have a positive sporting experience.

Perfectionism and well-being among student athletes: The mediating role of athletic coping

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-497
Author(s):  
Volkan Ozcan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Athletes ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Psychometric Measures ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Mental Well Being

This study aims at investigating the mediating effect of coping between perfectionism and well-being. In other words, it has been assumed that with the increase in the level of perfectionism, the increase will make it difficult to cope and consequently decrease the mental well-being of individuals, the study examined athletic coping mediated the perfectionism–wellbeing relationship among student athletes. According to recent research that athletic coping may mediate the relationship between perfectionism and well-being. Participants were 292 sports students obtained with the convenient sampling method comprising 119 females and 173 males. Ages ranged from 18-35 years (M = 21.71, SD = 2.15). Self-report data were collected including psychometric measures assessing multidimensional perfectionism, mental wellbeing and athletic coping skills. The results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between mental well-being and coping skills of sportspeople. There were negative significant correlations observed between mental well-being with other-oriented, socially-prescribed and self-oriented perfectionism. The results of this study suggest that athletic coping skills had a partial mediating role between other-oriented perfectionism and the mental well-being of sportspeople.

Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Sport-Specific Psychological Skills: The Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Smith ◽  
Robert W. Schutz ◽  
Frank L. Smoll ◽  
J.T. Ptacek
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Psychological Skills ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Development And Validation

Confirmatory factor analysis was used as the basis for a new form of the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory (ACSI). The ACSI-28 contains seven sport-specific subscales: Coping With Adversity, Peaking Under Pressure, Goal Setting/Mental Preparation, Concentration, Freedom From Worry, Confidence and Achievement Motivation, and Coachability. The scales can be summed to yield a Personal Coping Resources score, which is assumed to reflect a multifaceted psychological skills construct. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated the factorial validity of the ACSI-28, as the seven subscales conform well to the underlying factor structure for both male and female athletes. Psychometric characteristics are described, and preliminary evidence for construct and predictive validity is presented.

Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mental Training Program With Collegiate Athletes

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol R. Glass ◽  
Claire A. Spears ◽  
Rokas Perskaudas ◽  
Keith A. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Randomized Controlled

College is a stressful time for many students, including student-athletes, who may benefit from mindfulness interventions focusing on present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance. Mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) has shown promise in previous open trials for promoting both athlete well-being and psychological factors related to sport performance, and this first randomized controlled trial of MSPE was conducted with mixed-sport groups of 52 NCAA Division III student-athletes. Each of the six sessions included educational, discussion-based, experiential, and home practice components, with meditation exercises progressing from sedentary mindfulness to mindfulness in motion. Whereas wait-list controls showed significant increases in depressive symptoms, those who received MSPE evidenced non-significant reductions in depressive symptoms over the course of treatment. Furthermore, once controls had also received MSPE, treatment completers (the 41% who attended at least five of six MSPE sessions) demonstrated significant increases in flow, trait mindfulness, satisfaction with life, and self-rated sport performance, along with reductions in worry, with medium to large effect sizes. There were no significant changes for treatment completers from post-treatment to 6-month follow-up, suggesting that improvements were maintained over time.

scholarly journals Active Coping and Anxiety Symptoms during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spanish Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8240
Author(s):  
Raquel Lara ◽  
Martha Fernández-Daza ◽  
Sara Zabarain-Cogollo ◽  
María Angustias Olivencia-Carrión ◽  
Manuel Jiménez-Torres ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Active Phase ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Active Coping ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Negative Consequences

The features of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social operations to contain the spread of the virus might have limited or altered coping, including healthy habits such as exercise, this contributing to a myriad of negative consequences for the mental health of the global population. We explored the contribution of coping and physical activity to the management of anxiety in Spanish adults during an active phase of the epidemic, as well as the relationship between these strategies. A total of 200 young and adult individuals (70% women) voluntarily completed an anxiety inventory, a coping skills self-report and a personal data section including exercise practice. The participants reported in average a mild yet existing level of anxiety symptoms; a third reported noticeable symptoms. At the time of the study, the participants used more adaptive than maladaptive coping styles. Participants’ anxiety was inversely correlated with an active coping style, and positively with an avoidant style; physical activity correlated positively with an active coping style, and regular exercisers used more frequently active coping. Controlling for confounders, active coping, avoidant coping and exercise during the pandemic predicted anxiety symptoms. Other findings indicated that exercise was used as a coping strategy for dealing with emotional distress. Our results highlight the positive impact of functional coping and exercise for the management of negative states such as anxiety during the pandemic, and underline the importance of developing interventions aimed at enhancing coping skills for promoting physical and mental well-being of the population during health and social crises.

Turning the Corner: A Comparison of Collegiate Athletes’ and Non-Athletes’ Turning Points in Eating Disorder Recovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-613
Author(s):  
Jessyca N. Arthur-Cameselle ◽  
Molly Curcio
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Varsity Athletes ◽  
Professional Treatment ◽  
Collegiate Female Athletes

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify turning points in eating disorder recovery in collegiate female athletes compared to non-athletes. The sample included 12 varsity athletes and 17 non-athlete college students who previously met criteria for Anorexia Nervosa (AN; n = 17); Bulimia Nervosa (BN; n = 3); Binge Eating Disorder (n = 1); or both AN and BN (n = 8). Participants completed individual interviews and responses were analyzed inductively. There was some commonality in the athletes’ and non-athletes’ experiences. For example, the most frequent turning point for both groups was Insight/Self Realization. Regarding the next three most frequent turning points, athletes reported Sport Performance, Confrontation, and Support/Concern from Others, whereas non-athletes reported Professional Treatment, Hitting a Low, and Support/Concern from Others. This study contributes to the sparse literature on competitive athletes’ recovery. Results indicated that athletes’ turning points differed from non-athletes; therefore, findings are discussed concerning athlete-specific treatment recommendations and suggestions for coaches.

Burnout and Years of Sports Competition: Is There a Correlation?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley L. Holden ◽  
Christopher M. Keshock ◽  
Brooke E. Forester ◽  
Robert J. Heitman
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Division I ◽  
Psychological Injury ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
Sport Competition ◽  
Athlete Burnout

Introduction:Athlete burnout is a phenomenon that has been studied in previous research and is a concern in terms of athlete’s health and well–being (Capel, Sisley, & Desertrain, 1987; Harris, 2005; Kelley, Eklund, & Ritter-Taylor, 1999; Kjormo & Halvari, 2006; Raedeke, Warren, & Granzyk, 2000). Further, it is assumed by many sport coaches that the longer an athlete competes competitively in a sport, the greater chance for athlete burnout and the potential negative health consequences they could incur.Purpose:The purpose of the current study was to determine the correlation between years of sport competition and an athlete’s level of burnout on the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) subscales of Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), and Personal Accomplishment (PA).Method:The study was limited female athletes at a Division I institution in the Southeastern United States. Participants for this study were obtained via voluntary participation. The number of female athletes who completed the survey was 99. Athletes who participated were members of the women’s basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, track and field, and volleyball teams.Results:The data was analyzed using Pearson correlations. Each burnout subscale was analyzed separately with years of sport competition. Results found no significant (p<.05) correlations between years of sport competition and EE (p=.038), DP (p=.029), or PA (p=-.062).Conclusion:The current findings indicate that years of sport competition are not correlated with levels of burnout and female Division I collegiate athletes. Much prior research has also examined intensive training and effects on young athletes and concluded that there are concerns about intense training and psychological injury (Maffulli & Pintore, 1990). Therefore, based upon prior research and the results of the current study, future research should continue to study the effects of years of competition and burnout in order to truly understand its effects on athletes.

Hope and Athletic Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Gustafsson ◽  
Leslie Podlog ◽  
Paul Davis
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pain Tolerance ◽  
General Field ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Minimal Research

A substantial body of empirical work has demonstrated links between hope and positive psychosocial functioning within the general field of psychology. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the importance of hope within the athletic domain. The minimal research that does exist suggests that hope is associated with enhanced athlete well-being and performance. The reasons for such associations, however, remain uncertain. Potential mechanisms underlining the hope–performance relationship may include more efficacious goal-setting practices, increased effort, diminished anxiety, and enhanced pain tolerance. Further research is needed to elucidate potential mediators of the hope–performance relationship, the antecedents of hope, the implications of hope for individual and team performance, and the value of hope interventions in augmenting athlete well-being, coping, and athletic performance.

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