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- Title
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF COPING STRATEGIES BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT GOALS AND COMPETITIVE ANXIETY IN ELITE SPORT: A PATH ANALYTIC STUDY.
- Authors
DUICÂ, Stefania; BALÀZSI, Robert; CIULEI, Rodica; BIVOLARU, Adrian
- Abstract
In recent years research and theory development in sport psychology has been constantly focused on performance anxiety has given its strong impact on sport performance. The aim of this study is to validate a multiple mediation model, in which the coping strategies are mediating the effect of achievement goals on performance anxiety. The sample included N=116 professional athletes (members of national league handball and volleyball teams), with ages ranging between 13 to 19 years old (m=I6, SD= 1.63). All the instruments have been adapted for Romanian population: Coping Inventory for Competitive Sports (CICS), Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ), and The Sport Anxiety Scale 2 (SAS-2). The obtained results by path analysis sustains the mediating role of taskoriented and disengagement-oriented coping in the relationship between task orientation and performance anxiety, offering further support to the multidimensional model o f anxiety.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation in children; ACHIEVEMENT; COMPETITIVE state anxiety; PATH analysis (Statistics); PERFORMANCE anxiety
- Publication
Cognitie, Creier, Comportament/Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 2014, Vol 18, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
1224-8398
- Publication type
Article