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Athletes and adversities: athletic identity and emotional regulation in time of COVID-19

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the sporting field, with athletes constrained in home isolation without the possibility to train and compete in their usual environments. This situation has been investigated within the theoretical frameworks of athletic identity and cognitive emotion re...

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Autores principales: Costa, Sergio, Santi, Giampaolo, di Fronso, Selenia, Montesano, Cristina, Di Gruttola, Francesco, Ciofi, Edoardo Giorgio, Morgilli, Luana, Bertollo, Maurizio
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Publicado: Springer Milan 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7457888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11332-020-00677-9
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author Costa, Sergio
Santi, Giampaolo
di Fronso, Selenia
Montesano, Cristina
Di Gruttola, Francesco
Ciofi, Edoardo Giorgio
Morgilli, Luana
Bertollo, Maurizio
author_facet Costa, Sergio
Santi, Giampaolo
di Fronso, Selenia
Montesano, Cristina
Di Gruttola, Francesco
Ciofi, Edoardo Giorgio
Morgilli, Luana
Bertollo, Maurizio
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the sporting field, with athletes constrained in home isolation without the possibility to train and compete in their usual environments. This situation has been investigated within the theoretical frameworks of athletic identity and cognitive emotion regulation. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of our investigation were to: (a) validate the athletic identity measurement scale (AIMS) for use in Italian language; and (b) explore differences by gender, typology of sport (individual vs. team), and competitive level (elite vs. non-elite) in athletic identity and in cognitive emotion regulation during the Covid-19 lockdown period. METHODS: To achieve these objectives, the reliability and construct validity of the Italian version of the AIMS have been tested in Study 1. Multivariate and univariate analyses were run to evaluate differences between different groups of athletes in Study 2. RESULTS: Results from Study 1 suggest a 3-factor higher order model of athletic identity. Results from Study 2 highlight that, during this lockdown period, elite athletes and team sports athletes show higher athletic identity. Cognitive emotion regulation strategies are different for gender and for competitive level. Finally, athletes with higher athletic identity tend to ruminate and catastrophize more. CONCLUSIONS: The present multi-study paper contributes to the theoretical field with a validated measure of athletic identity in Italian language. It also provides some practical implications that could apply in this situation of isolation and can be extended to cases such as those of injury or illness.
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spelling pubmed-74578882020-09-01 Athletes and adversities: athletic identity and emotional regulation in time of COVID-19 Costa, Sergio Santi, Giampaolo di Fronso, Selenia Montesano, Cristina Di Gruttola, Francesco Ciofi, Edoardo Giorgio Morgilli, Luana Bertollo, Maurizio Sport Sci Health Original Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the sporting field, with athletes constrained in home isolation without the possibility to train and compete in their usual environments. This situation has been investigated within the theoretical frameworks of athletic identity and cognitive emotion regulation. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of our investigation were to: (a) validate the athletic identity measurement scale (AIMS) for use in Italian language; and (b) explore differences by gender, typology of sport (individual vs. team), and competitive level (elite vs. non-elite) in athletic identity and in cognitive emotion regulation during the Covid-19 lockdown period. METHODS: To achieve these objectives, the reliability and construct validity of the Italian version of the AIMS have been tested in Study 1. Multivariate and univariate analyses were run to evaluate differences between different groups of athletes in Study 2. RESULTS: Results from Study 1 suggest a 3-factor higher order model of athletic identity. Results from Study 2 highlight that, during this lockdown period, elite athletes and team sports athletes show higher athletic identity. Cognitive emotion regulation strategies are different for gender and for competitive level. Finally, athletes with higher athletic identity tend to ruminate and catastrophize more. CONCLUSIONS: The present multi-study paper contributes to the theoretical field with a validated measure of athletic identity in Italian language. It also provides some practical implications that could apply in this situation of isolation and can be extended to cases such as those of injury or illness. Springer Milan 2020-08-31 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7457888/ /pubmed/32904823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11332-020-00677-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Montesano, Cristina
Di Gruttola, Francesco
Ciofi, Edoardo Giorgio
Morgilli, Luana
Bertollo, Maurizio
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32904823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11332-020-00677-9
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