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Endurance athletes' coping function use during competitive suffering episodes.

Michael Blair Evans¹, Sharleen D Hoar, Robert J Gebotys

¹a Department of Psychology , Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo , ON , Canada.

European Journal of Sport Science

|September 6, 2013

Summary

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Endurance athletes experiencing competitive suffering adapt their coping strategies over time. Negative goal attainment feelings strongly predict emotion-focused coping, while problem-focused coping is moderately predicted.

Keywords:

Endurance psychology quantitative study

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Published on: June 8, 2017

Area of Science:

Sports Psychology
Exercise Science
Performance Psychology

Background:

Competitive suffering is a negative affective state experienced by endurance athletes when falling short of goals.
Understanding coping mechanisms is crucial for athlete well-being and performance.
Coping processes are dynamic and adapt to the evolving demands of competition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how endurance athletes' coping function use changes over time during competitive suffering.
To examine the relationship between goal attainment feelings and the use of different coping functions.
To identify temporal patterns in coping strategy adaptation during competitive episodes.

Main Methods:

Twenty-six runners participated in a 5-km time trial designed to induce competitive suffering via false failure feedback.
Momentary assessments of goal attainment and coping function use were collected using video-mediated recall.
Pooled time series analysis was employed to analyze coping function use across different stages of the suffering episode.

Main Results:

Negative feelings about goal attainment significantly predicted the use of emotion-focused coping.
Problem-focused coping use was moderately predicted by negative goal attainment feelings.
Avoidance coping use decreased over time, independent of goal attainment feelings.

Conclusions:

Coping in endurance sports is an adaptive process that changes in response to competitive demands.
Emotion-focused and problem-focused coping are utilized differently based on goal attainment perceptions.
Avoidance coping diminishes as competitive suffering episodes progress.