Zusammenfassung der Ressource
COPING
- DEFINE
- constantly changing
cognitive and behavioural
efforts to manage internal
or external demands
perceived to be taxing or
exceeding resources
- strategies
- problem focused
- alleviate
environmental
stimuli
causing
stress
response
- increase effort and resolve
- analysing and planning
- learning and
improvement
- emotion focused
- regulation of
emotions to
manage or reduce
cognitive ditress
- acceptance
- using anxiety as
a stimulant
- emotional
control
techniques
- venting of emotions
- seeking
social
support
- styles
- approach
- facing the stressful situation,
trying to resolve
- emphasize positives
- thought control
- realistic appraisals
- positive
reinterpretation
and growth
- avoidance
- psychological (cognitive distancing)
- behavioural (removing self
from situation
- isolation
- wishful thinking
- avoiding the
problem/ignoring
- conceptual framework
- problem
focused-approach:
focus on errors and
try to correct
- problem
focused-avoidance:
try again and dont
worry about it
- emotion
focused-approach:
use PMR to reduce
stress
- emotion
focused-avoidance:
forget it, doesnt bother
you
- coping resources in golfers- EMOTION FOCUSED FOUND TO BE PREDOMINANT
- BLOCKING, CONCENTRATION AND TECHNICAL
ADJUSTMENTS most frequently cited
- GENDER DIFFERENCES
- equivocal findings
- use more problem-focused
- females more emotion focus and seek social support
- AGE
- younger athletes
have smaller less
flexible repetoire
- older better
equipped to cope
- try to teach
children
several
different
strategies so
they feel
better able to
cope
- STRATEGIES AND PSYCH RESPONSES
- more
emotion
focused
coping leads
to more
negative
affect and
cognitive
anxiety
- more
problem
focused
associated
with
greater
positive
affect
- more
avoidance
coping leading
to negative
cognitive
anxiety
- gymnast coping strategies
- facilitators
- in good phase of
performance: "i
was really in the
flow and just
focussing on
continuing to
perform well"
- in bad phase:
"just tried to be
positive and get
on with it"
- debilitators
- in good phase:
"i was just
constantly
worried i'd muck
it up, start
performing
badly"
- bad phase: "tried
to get myself back
on track but it
didnt really work
and then i didnt
know what to do"
- coping effectiveness
- determined by
- previous experience
- motivational orientation
- self confidence
- lack can lead to:
- DECREASED
PERFORMANCE
- sport withdrawal
- less likely to
pursue
professional career
- examples of coping failure
- helplessness
- intensified self-analysis
- crying after performance
- making more mistakes
- WHAT DETERMINES EFFECTIVENESS?
- type of strategy
employed
(positive self talk
and thinking
ahead vs thinking
of irrelevant
things and neg
ST)
- perceived control over
stressors (will increase
coping ability)
- automaticity of
the coping
response
- high coping effectiveness
associated with placement at
olympic games (2002 research)
- coping effectiveness training (2011)
- 1-
understanding
coping ability
and your
stressors
2-coping with
uncontrollable
(emotion
focused)
3-coping with
controllable
(problem
focused) 4-
using social
support to cope