Coping Strategies Before Competition: The Role of Stress, Cognitive Appraisal, and Emotions.

ABSTRACT: Sports, 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). Specifically, athletes were asked to complete a protocol 24-48 h prior to an important competition to assess their adaptation to stress related to high performance. The study included 383 athletes (60% male, M_age = 22.9 ± 5.3 years), from individual (swimming and running, n = 157; 41%) and team sports (handball, volleyball, n = 226; 59%) competing in major natio

SUBMITTER: Nogueira JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12568298 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature