Athletes and adversities: athletic identity and emotional regulation in time of COVID-19
| Autor: | Sergio Costa, Giampaolo Santi, Edoardo Giorgio Ciofi, Selenia di Fronso, Francesco Di Gruttola, Luana Morgilli, Maurizio Bertollo, Cristina Montesano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Coping (psychology) Sports medicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Performance 05 social sciences Construct validity Cognition 030229 sport sciences Sport psychology 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Elite Lockdown medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Original Article Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Coping Psychology Social psychology Athlete isolation |
| Zdroj: | Sport Sciences for Health |
| ISSN: | 1825-1234 1824-7490 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11332-020-00677-9 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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