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Stressors and expected performance of soccer athletes: the role of sport confid...
Morais, Catarina; Simães, Clara; Gomes, A. Rui; Gonçalves, Beatriz MartinsThis study aimed to provide a framework for how athletes evaluate stress before a competition and how stress relates to cognitive appraisal, sport confidence, and expectations of performance. Participants were 327 youth male athletes, aged 15–19 years (M = 16.90; SD = 1.00), who competed in the Portuguese National Football League and completed a questionnaire 24–48 hr before their match, using the critical inci...
Stressors and expected performance of soccer athletes: The role of sport confid...
Morais, Catarina; Simães, Clara; Gomes, A. Rui; Gonçalves, Beatriz MartinsThis study aimed to provide a framework for how athletes evaluate stress before a competition and how stress relates to cognitive appraisal, sport confidence, and expectations of performance. Participants were 327 youth male athletes, aged 15–19 years (M= 16.90; SD = 1.00), who competed in the Portuguese National Football League and completed a questionnaire 24–48 hours before their match, using the critical in...
Coping strategies before competition: the role of stress, cognitive appraisal a...
Nogueira, José Miguel; Simães, Clara; Morais, Catarina; Mansell, Paul; Gomes, A. RuiSports, and especially competitions, can be a stressful experience for athletes, who often struggle to find and apply strategies to cope with stress. Thus, this study analyzes how different coping strategies anticipated to be employed in an important competition are explained by psychological (i.e., cognitive appraisal and emotions) and person and sports- related factors (i.e., gender, type of sport). Specifica...
Leadership efficacy, perceived sport performance, and satisfaction with leaders...
Sousa, Jacinta; Morais, Catarina; Gomes, A. Rui; Simães, Clara; Abreu, Andrés; Resende, RuiThe Leadership Efficacy Model is an integrative approach that considers three distinct factors involved in leadership efficacy that simultaneously contribute to explaining leadership efficacy (i.e., Optimized Congruence Hypothesis; OCH): leadership cycles, leadership styles, and antecedent factors of leadership. This study tested the OCH by evaluating the relationship between leadership cycles and the perceptio...
Stress and cognitive appraisal in university students: explaining burnout over ...
Simães, Clara; Couto, Adriana; Morais, Catarina; Gomes, A. Rui; Fontes, LilianaThis study explored the experience of students' burnout across time, aiming to analyze the possible differential impact of stress and cognitive appraisal on burnout. In addition, it investigated the possible mediation effect of cognitive appraisal on the relationship between stress and burnout. The study included 175 university students aged between 17 and 42 years old (M = 21.19 years; SD = 3.95), of which 155...
Explaining organizational commitment and job satisfaction: the role of leadersh...
Morais, Catarina; Queirós, Francisca; Couto, Sara; Gomes, A. Rui; Simães, ClaraEffective leaders increase organizational success. The Leadership Efficacy Model suggests that leaders’ efficacy increases when leaders are perceived as congruent; that is, when employees perceive the leader to do (practical cycle of leadership) what s/he says will (conceptual cycle of leadership) and there is a close match between what employees expect from leaders and what leaders display. This recent theoret...
Stress, autoconfiança e expectativas de rendimento em atletas de formação de fu...
Resende, Rui; Morais, Catarina; Gomes, A. Rui; Simães, ClaraA participação no desporto juvenil, e em particular na competição, nem sempre tem impacto positivo nos atletas. Sakar e Fletcher (2014) sumarizaram as principais fontes de stress na competição juvenil: receio de insucesso desportivo, de cometer erros, e de sofrer lesões, má condição desportiva, expectativas sociais, os adversários. No entanto, o modo como os atletas se sentem face ao desporto não depende apenas...
Leadership efficacy in youth football: athletes' and coaches’ perspective
Gomes, A. Rui; Gonçalves, Alexandre; Morais, Catarina; Simães, Clara; Resende, RuiAccording to the Leadership Efficacy Model, leadership efficacy depends on leaders’ tendency to make linear relationships between leadership philosophy, practice, and criteria (i.e., congruence of leadership cycles). Moreover, efficacy increases if coaches make these linear relationships by using the optimal leadership profile and by considering the antecedent factors of leadership (characteristics of the leade...
Adaptation to stress in football athletes: the importance of cognitive appraisal
Rui Gomes, A.; Simães, Clara; Morais, Catarina; Cunha, RicardoThis study analysed the adaptation of football athletes to competitive stressors regarding the upcoming match. For that, the study adopted a cross- sectional methodology using a critical incident approach. The participants were 352 young male football athletes, aged between 15 and 19 years (M = 16.91, SD = 0.99), who were competing in the national football championship. The results indicated that cognitive appr...
Occupational stress and cognitive appraisal profiles as predictors of students’...
Gomes, A. Rui; Simães, Clara; Morais, Catarina; Couto, AdrianaObjective: Analyze if different patterns of occupational stress experienced by students (lower versus higher) and different cognitive appraisal profiles assumed by students (positive evaluation of academic activity versus negative evaluation of academic activity) affect their experience of burnout over time. Background: The interactive and transactional perspective of adaptation to stress was adopted to analyze...