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The relationship between multidimensional competitive anxiety, cognitive threat appraisal, and coping strategies : a multi-sport study

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Summary:The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between, multidimensional competitive trait anxiety (cognitive and somatic anxiety), trait cognitive threat appraisal, and coping styles. Five-hundred and fifty male and female athletes of several individual and team sports, between the ages of 15 and 35 (M ¼ 19.8 + 4.5), completed the translated and adapted versions of the Sport Anxiety Scale and of the Brief COPE, as well as the Cognitive Appraisal Scale in Sport Competition – Threat Perception. Pearson and Q2 Canonical correlations showed that higher levels of trait cognitive anxiety and threat appraisal were positively related to emotion-focused and avoidance coping and inversely related to problem-focused coping. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of individual differences in trait anxiety and threat appraisals, regarding athletes’ coping styles.
Main Authors:Dias, Claudia S.
Other Authors:Cruz, José Fernando A.; Fonseca, António Manuel
Subject:Sport Trait anxiety Threat appraisal Coping strategies Desporto Ansiedade Traço Percepção de ameaça Avaliação cognitiva de ameaça Estratégias de coping
Year:2012
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade do Minho
Language:English
Origin:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

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