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- Title
Sources of Strain Among Elite UK Track Athletes.
- Authors
McKay, Jane; Niven, Ailsa G.; Lavallee, David; White, Alison
- Abstract
Following the theoretical framework of Lazarus and Folkman (1984), recently adapted to sport (Fletcher, Hanton, & Mellalieu, 2006), 12 elite UK track athletes (M age = 22.7; SD = 2.4 years) participated in semistructured interviews to identify sources of strain. Inductive content analysis identified 11 general dimensions of sources of strain from 664 meaning units, which were subsequently categorized into competitive, organizational, and personal domains. Several sources of strain (e.g., competitive concerns, pressure to perform) were consistent with previous research supporting the suggestion that a core group of stressors may be evident across sports although several sources of strain appeared to be more pertinent to track athletes (e.g., social evaluation and self-presentation concerns) highlighting the need to consider group differences.
- Subjects
TRACK &; field athletes; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress research; PHYSIOLOGIC strain; SPORTS psychology; EUROPEAN athletes; ELITE athletes; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sport Psychologist, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0888-4781
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/tsp.22.2.143