Citation

Bardel MH, Woodman T, Colombel F, Le Scanff C. Res. Q. Exerc. Sport 2012; 83(4): 597-602.

Affiliation

Institute of Environmental Medicine at Paris, France. bardel.marieheloise@neuf.fr

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23367824

Abstract

We investigated the relationship between coping strategies and attentional bias after a sport competition. We administered the Ways of Coping Checklist (Paulhan, Nuissier, Quintard, Cousson, & Bourgeois, 1994) to 145 athletes immediately after they had participated in a sport competition. We also assessed attentional bias using a dot probe detection task. Results revealed that emotion-focused coping strategies led athletes to orient their attention away from threat, whereas athletes who adopted problem-focused coping strategies focused their attention toward threat. More precisely, problem-focused coping strategies are related to a facilitated detection of threat, not to disengagement difficulties. The vigilance attentional bias seems to be a compensatory strategy to cope with a stressful situation, such as sport competition.

Language: en