PSYC 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Stress Management, Controllability, Muscle Tone
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Conceptual framework for coping strategies and styles: coping strategies are of 2 types, problem focused coping strategies: alleviating the environmental stimulus that is causing the stress response. E. g. baseball player experiencing anxiousness when batting left-handed pitchers. Solution is to gain more experiencing during practice batting with left-handed pitchers: emotion-focused coping strategies: seek to regulate emotions in order to reduce or mange cognitive distress. E. g. batter focuses coping on controlling emotions through anxiety reduction techniques: coping conceptual framework: two dimensions of coping. Measurement of coping skill: several different pencil-and-paper inventories have been developed to measure coping resources. Sources of stress and coping strategies used by athletes: sources of stress are specific to situation, age, sport, skill level and gender, examples: Opponent distractions: weather conditions, sources of feat of failure: Fear of performing poorly: coping responses, approach cognitive coping, approach behavioral coping: most effective in dealing with both performance and coaching stress, avoidance cognitive coping.
