Resistant personality and coping strategies in Mexican World Cup and Olympic athletes in a pandemic

The objective is to identify the existence of the relationship between the Resistant Personality (PR) variables and the variables of the Approach to Coping in Sport (DAA) construct. The sample was 21 selected Mexican national athletes of world and Olympic level currently retired; the age of the part...

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Autores principales: Ponce Carbajal, Nancy, López Walle, Jeanette M., Méndez Sánchez, María del Pilar
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: RINOE Journal 2021
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Acceso en línea:http://eprints.uanl.mx/23045/7/23045.pdf
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Sumario:The objective is to identify the existence of the relationship between the Resistant Personality (PR) variables and the variables of the Approach to Coping in Sport (DAA) construct. The sample was 21 selected Mexican national athletes of world and Olympic level currently retired; the age of the participants ranges between 23 and 64 years (M =38.43, SD = 10.01), of which 11 are men (52.4%) and 10 women (47.6%). The athletes answered two instruments, the first is Resistant Personality in Central American and Caribbean Athletes and the second is the Approach to Coping in Sport Questionnaire. The methodology, empirical associative, simple correlation and cross-sectional. Descriptive analyzes, reliability and Spearman correlations were performed with SPSS 25. The results showed an internal consistency greater than .70 in most of the variables and the correlations of the Resistant Personality, Challenge variables, were positively related and significantly with the variables of Approach to coping in the Sport of Emotional Calm and Risk Behaviors. In conclusion, high-performance athletes use the skills learned in sport as coping strategies in the face of challenges with emotional control and push themselves to the maximum to achieve their goals