Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2014

Co-occurrences of anxiety and coping among soccer referees: a dual-trajectory model

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Introduction
It is widely recognized that coping strategies used by athletes to face up to a stressful encounter influence sport performance (Hoar, Kowalski, Gaudreau, & Crocker, 2006). The transactional model of stress and coping states that anxiety and coping share close relations (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Indeed, as an event unfolds, athletes feel emotions when they perceive an unbalance between the situational demands and their own resources. Among the various emotions that can be experienced, anxiety is the most cited one (Bolger, 1990). The inherent recursiveness of the coping process lets us consider the relations between anxiety and coping in two ways (Raffety, Smith, & Ptacek, 1997). Either anxiety acts as an antecedent of coping or as an outcome of coping. Nonetheless, these two processes are so imbricated that it seems more appropriate to examine their longitudinal patterns of co-occurences to provide a fine-grained description of their relations.

Objective
The aim of this study is (1) to determine prototypical profiles of coping utilization and of anxiety experiences and (2) to jointly analyze these profiles in order to highlight specific co-occurrences of coping and anxiety with soccer referees.

Method
227 soccer referees participated in this study and completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 and the Ways of Coping Checklist three times over an entire competitive season. ResultsResults showed three distinct profiles for cognitive and somatic anxiety. They also revealed five different trajectories for problem-focused coping and three profiles for disengagement-oriented coping and for seeking-support coping. Joint probabilities of coping utilization clusters co-occurring with anxiety are proposed. For example, moderate and stable cognitive anxiety levels are associated with moderate and decreasing disengagement-oriented coping utilization.

Conclusion
These results highlight the need to account for the multinomial heterogeneity of the longitudinal associations of coping and anxiety. In-depth analyses of athletes’ self-regulation processes are recommended to implement idiographic interventions in order to achieve a better adaptation to the competitive conditions

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hal-02374502 , version 1 (21-11-2019)

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Benoit Louvet, Patrick Gaudreau, Amael André. Co-occurrences of anxiety and coping among soccer referees: a dual-trajectory model. 5th International Congress of Sport Psychology, May 2014, Nice, France. pp.150. ⟨hal-02374502⟩
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