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https://doi.org/10.24141/1/10/1/4
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE AND STRESS COPING STRATEGIES AMONG ATHLETES
Marinka Šimunović Gašpar
; Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo
Janko Babić
; Zdravstveno veleučilište, Zagreb
Sažetak
The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between stress coping strategies and levels of emotional competence among professional and amateur athletes.
The research was conducted on 135 athletes, both professionals and amateurs, aged 18-22 years. The measurement instruments used were the UEK-45 (“Emotional Competence Questionnaire”), which includes subscales for perceiving and understanding emotions, naming and expressing emotions, and managing emotions, and the CISS (“Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations”), which includes subscales for emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, and avoidance coping.
The average level of emotional competence was obtained for the entire sample, with respondents showing the highest scores in the dimension of Naming and Expressing Emotions. Regarding coping strategies with stress, respondents showed the highest scores in the dimension of Problem-focused coping. The overall score of emotional competence is significantly positively associated with the use of problem-focused coping strategies, while there is no association between the overall level of emotional competence and other strategies (emotion-focused and avoidance). Additionally, each specific form of emotional competence is also statistically significantly associated only with problem-focused strategies, but not with other strategies.
Athletes who are more emotionally competent tend to use problem-focused coping strategies more often, but not emotion-focused ones. Although this relationship should be further investigated, it can be assumed that individuals who better understand and control their own emotions in stressful situations, in this case in a sports environment, are more prepared to directly confront the problem because their own emotional state does not burden them as much.
Ključne riječi
emotional competence, stress, coping with stress
Hrčak ID:
318237
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Datum izdavanja:
21.6.2024.
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