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Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control

The purpose of this study was to identify the potentially distinct defense profiles of athletes in order to provide insight into the complex associations that can exist between defenses and other important variables tied to performance in sports (e.g., coping, perceived stress and control) and to fu...

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Autores principales: Nicolas, Michel, Martinent, Guillaume, Drapeau, Martin, Chahraoui, Khadija, Vacher, Philippe, de Roten, Yves
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02222
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author Nicolas, Michel
Martinent, Guillaume
Drapeau, Martin
Chahraoui, Khadija
Vacher, Philippe
de Roten, Yves
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description The purpose of this study was to identify the potentially distinct defense profiles of athletes in order to provide insight into the complex associations that can exist between defenses and other important variables tied to performance in sports (e.g., coping, perceived stress and control) and to further our understanding of the complexity of the adaptation process in sports. Two hundred and ninety-six (N = 296) athletes participated in a naturalistic study that involved a highly stressful situation: a sports competition. Participants were assessed before and after the competition. Hierarchical cluster analysis and a series of MANOVAs with post hoc comparisons indicated two stable defense profiles (high and low defense profiles) of athletes both before and during sport competition. These profiles differed with regards to coping, stress and control. Athletes with high defense profiles reported higher levels of coping strategies, perceived stress and control than athletes with low defense profiles. This study confirmed that defenses are involved in the psychological adaptation process and that research and intervention should not be based only on coping, but rather must include defense mechanisms in order to improve our understanding of psychological adaptation in competitive sports.
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spelling pubmed-57421642018-01-08 Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control Nicolas, Michel Martinent, Guillaume Drapeau, Martin Chahraoui, Khadija Vacher, Philippe de Roten, Yves Front Psychol Psychology The purpose of this study was to identify the potentially distinct defense profiles of athletes in order to provide insight into the complex associations that can exist between defenses and other important variables tied to performance in sports (e.g., coping, perceived stress and control) and to further our understanding of the complexity of the adaptation process in sports. Two hundred and ninety-six (N = 296) athletes participated in a naturalistic study that involved a highly stressful situation: a sports competition. Participants were assessed before and after the competition. Hierarchical cluster analysis and a series of MANOVAs with post hoc comparisons indicated two stable defense profiles (high and low defense profiles) of athletes both before and during sport competition. These profiles differed with regards to coping, stress and control. Athletes with high defense profiles reported higher levels of coping strategies, perceived stress and control than athletes with low defense profiles. This study confirmed that defenses are involved in the psychological adaptation process and that research and intervention should not be based only on coping, but rather must include defense mechanisms in order to improve our understanding of psychological adaptation in competitive sports. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5742164/ /pubmed/29312070 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02222 Text en Copyright © 2017 Nicolas, Martinent, Drapeau, Chahraoui, Vacher and de Roten. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Nicolas, Michel
Martinent, Guillaume
Drapeau, Martin
Chahraoui, Khadija
Vacher, Philippe
de Roten, Yves
Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title_full Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title_fullStr Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title_full_unstemmed Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title_short Defense Profiles in Adaptation Process to Sport Competition and Their Relationships with Coping, Stress and Control
title_sort defense profiles in adaptation process to sport competition and their relationships with coping, stress and control
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5742164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312070
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02222
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