Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between athletic identity, coping strategies, and emotion with the occurrence of season-ending injuries among adult-aged male and female competitive distance runners. The study recruited 289 male and female competitive runners (ages 18-70) with a mean age of 33 who have had any injury that prevented them from running for at least two months. Participants were track and field, road racing, and/or cross country athletes recruited from universities and community colleges in the United States and the U.K. as well as from other competitive running clubs. Participants completed online surveys consisting of demographic questionnaires as well as the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS), the Ways of Coping Checklist (WCCL), and the Emotional Responses of Athletes to Injury Questionnaire (ERAIQ). In-depth, semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 10 of these athletes on a voluntary basis. The results of this study found that 1) Social and negative affectivity athletic identity was positively linked to negative emotional response while exclusivity athletic identify was positively associated with positive relived emotional response, 2) problem-focused coping significantly positively predicted optimistic emotional response; 3) emotion-focused coping was positively corresponded to negative emotional response; 4) athletic social identity was positively related to problemfocused coping while athletic negative affectivity was related negatively to problemfocused coping and positively to emotion-focused coping. The findings were discussed in light of the literature of athletic identity and coping strategies in sport.
Author: Rebecca Parks
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2194365093