Relationship between training status and stress response in Chinese college student-athletes: chain mediation between sport performance strategies and coping styles.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The stress response is recognized in sport psychology as a complex physiological and psychological reaction elicited by the human body when confronted with challenges or threats. It remains a focal issue in research on athletes' training status and sport performance.

Objective

This study aimed to examine the effects of training status on the stress response of Chinese college student-athletes and to verify the mediating roles of sport performance strategies and coping styles.

Methods

A total of 797 Chinese college student-athletes were assessed using the Training Status Scale, Stress Response Scale, Sports Performance Strategy Scale, and Coping Style Scale.

Results

(1) Significant differences were observed in training status and sport performance strategy a

SUBMITTER: Gao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12285528 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature