TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Coping styles among adolescent competitive athletes
JO  - Journal of social psychology
A1  - Anshel, M.
SP  - 311
EP  - 323
VL  - 136
IS  - 3
N2  - The use of approach and avoidance coping styles and task-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies in competitive sport was explored. Four hundred twenty-one adolescent males from New South Wales, Australia, who were currently competing in team sports indicated their usual responses to each of 8 acute stressors commonly experienced in sport, using a 128-item inventory. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) for each stressor ranged from .81 to .92. Twenty-six of the original 128 items on the inventory were retained, on the basis of factor analysis. Correlations between stressors indicated that coping styles were a function of type of stressor, providing support for the transactional model. Goodness of fit was high (.87). The present results partially support the construct of coping style among adolescent-aged sports competitors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -