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Keep your cool and win the game: Emotion regulation and performance in table tennis
Jeanette Kubiak1, Sonja Rother1, Boris Egloff1
1Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Objective:
People often feel anxious prior to performance situations, and this can lead to performance decrements. Thus, applying effective emotion regulation strategies could be crucial for achieving maximum performance.
Method:
We investigated the relation between dispositional precompetition emotion regulation and competition performance. Participants were 310 table tennis players (240 men, Mage = 39.07, SD = 15.99). Self-reported emotion regulation behavior was matched with objective performance data.
Results:
We found that positive cognitive change strategies were positively related and negative cognitive change strategies were negatively related to winning in competitions. Furthermore, athletes with a higher performance status more often used situation modification, positive cognitive change, and response modulation strategies.
Conclusions:
Our findings contribute to personality research by providing evidence for the (non)effectiveness of certain emotion regulation strategies.
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