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A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners

Running marathons is an increasingly popular activity with an ever-increasing number of events and participants. Many participants declare that they pursue a variety of goals by running, namely, the maintenance of good health, the development of strength and improvement of fitness, the management of...

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Autores principales: Jaenes, Jose C., Alarcón, David, Trujillo, Manuel, Méndez-Sánchez, María del Pilar, León-Guereño, Patxi, Wilczyńska, Dominika
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9011145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35432105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.800024
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author Jaenes, Jose C.
Alarcón, David
Trujillo, Manuel
Méndez-Sánchez, María del Pilar
León-Guereño, Patxi
Wilczyńska, Dominika
author_facet Jaenes, Jose C.
Alarcón, David
Trujillo, Manuel
Méndez-Sánchez, María del Pilar
León-Guereño, Patxi
Wilczyńska, Dominika
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description Running marathons is an increasingly popular activity with an ever-increasing number of events and participants. Many participants declare that they pursue a variety of goals by running, namely, the maintenance of good health, the development of strength and improvement of fitness, the management of emotions, and the achievement of resilience and psychological wellbeing (PWB). The research has examined marathon running, like many other sports, and has studied various factors that reduce athletic performance, such as the experience of anxiety, and that enhance such performance, such as an increase in general wellbeing. This article reports the results of a study on the experience of competitive anxiety among 238 male marathon runners who participated in Seville’s (Spain) 26th Marathon race on February 23, 2020, and investigates the relationship between anxiety and key dimensions of wellbeing as measured by the Spanish-adapted 20-item PWB Scale. We hypothesized that participating athletes who rated high on the dimensions of PWB would experience lower levels of competitive anxiety with respect to this race. We also proposed that PWB would function as a mediating factor with respect to the experience of anxiety. The results show, as hypothesized, that marathon running enhances wellbeing and reduces anxiety. The data showed significant negative correlations between four of five wellbeing dimensions and the three types of anxiety measured, namely, somatic anxiety, worry, and concentration-impairing anxiety. Other findings supported our hypothesis that wellbeing, as measured, functions as a mediating factor for the moderation of competitive anxiety. Generalization of these findings is limited by the fact that the low number of female participants recruited did not permit valid statistical analyses in this respect. It is known that both anxiety and wellbeing are subjects to variation by gender. The future inclusion of male and female subjects in equivalent studies will undoubtedly add valuable information concerning the dynamics of anxiety and wellbeing. The implications of these findings and the limitations of the study will be discussed.
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spelling pubmed-90111452022-04-16 A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners Jaenes, Jose C. Alarcón, David Trujillo, Manuel Méndez-Sánchez, María del Pilar León-Guereño, Patxi Wilczyńska, Dominika Front Psychol Psychology Running marathons is an increasingly popular activity with an ever-increasing number of events and participants. Many participants declare that they pursue a variety of goals by running, namely, the maintenance of good health, the development of strength and improvement of fitness, the management of emotions, and the achievement of resilience and psychological wellbeing (PWB). The research has examined marathon running, like many other sports, and has studied various factors that reduce athletic performance, such as the experience of anxiety, and that enhance such performance, such as an increase in general wellbeing. This article reports the results of a study on the experience of competitive anxiety among 238 male marathon runners who participated in Seville’s (Spain) 26th Marathon race on February 23, 2020, and investigates the relationship between anxiety and key dimensions of wellbeing as measured by the Spanish-adapted 20-item PWB Scale. We hypothesized that participating athletes who rated high on the dimensions of PWB would experience lower levels of competitive anxiety with respect to this race. We also proposed that PWB would function as a mediating factor with respect to the experience of anxiety. The results show, as hypothesized, that marathon running enhances wellbeing and reduces anxiety. The data showed significant negative correlations between four of five wellbeing dimensions and the three types of anxiety measured, namely, somatic anxiety, worry, and concentration-impairing anxiety. Other findings supported our hypothesis that wellbeing, as measured, functions as a mediating factor for the moderation of competitive anxiety. Generalization of these findings is limited by the fact that the low number of female participants recruited did not permit valid statistical analyses in this respect. It is known that both anxiety and wellbeing are subjects to variation by gender. The future inclusion of male and female subjects in equivalent studies will undoubtedly add valuable information concerning the dynamics of anxiety and wellbeing. The implications of these findings and the limitations of the study will be discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9011145/ /pubmed/35432105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.800024 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jaenes, Alarcón, Trujillo, Méndez-Sánchez, León-Guereño and Wilczyńska. https://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) and the copyright owner(s) 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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Jaenes, Jose C.
Alarcón, David
Trujillo, Manuel
Méndez-Sánchez, María del Pilar
León-Guereño, Patxi
Wilczyńska, Dominika
A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title_full A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title_fullStr A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title_full_unstemmed A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title_short A Moderated Mediation Model of Wellbeing and Competitive Anxiety in Male Marathon Runners
title_sort moderated mediation model of wellbeing and competitive anxiety in male marathon runners
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9011145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35432105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.800024
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