TY - JOUR
T1 - Precompetitive achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping among athletes
AU - Nicholls, Adam R.
AU - Perry, John L.
AU - Calmeiro, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Human Kinetics, Inc.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Grounded in Lazarus's (1991, 1999, 2000) cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotions, we tested a model of achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping. We predicted that precompetitive achievement goals would be associated with appraisals, appraisals with emotions, and emotions with coping in our model. The mediating effects of emotions among the overall sample of 827 athletes and two stratified random subsamples were also explored. The results of this study support our proposed model in the overall sample and the stratified subsamples. Further, emotion mediated the relationship between appraisal and coping. Mediation analyses revealed that there were indirect effects of pleasant and unpleasant emotions, which indicates the importance of examining multiple emotions to reveal a more accurate representation of the overall stress process. Our findings indicate that both appraisals and emotions are just as important in shaping coping.
AB - Grounded in Lazarus's (1991, 1999, 2000) cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotions, we tested a model of achievement goals, stress appraisals, emotions, and coping. We predicted that precompetitive achievement goals would be associated with appraisals, appraisals with emotions, and emotions with coping in our model. The mediating effects of emotions among the overall sample of 827 athletes and two stratified random subsamples were also explored. The results of this study support our proposed model in the overall sample and the stratified subsamples. Further, emotion mediated the relationship between appraisal and coping. Mediation analyses revealed that there were indirect effects of pleasant and unpleasant emotions, which indicates the importance of examining multiple emotions to reveal a more accurate representation of the overall stress process. Our findings indicate that both appraisals and emotions are just as important in shaping coping.
KW - Achievement goals
KW - Challenge
KW - Coping
KW - Stress appraisals
KW - Structural equation modeling
KW - Threat
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U2 - 10.1123/jsep.2013-0266
DO - 10.1123/jsep.2013-0266
M3 - Article
C2 - 25356608
AN - SCOPUS:84920086049
SN - 0895-2779
VL - 36
SP - 433
EP - 445
JO - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 5
ER -