Mohamad Hosein Ghahramani; Mohamad Ali Besharat; Seyyed Reza Attarzadeh Hosseini; Ali Akbarnejad
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Coping style is one of the substantial factors influencing sport achievements insport competitions. The main aim of the present study was to examine the effect ofsport stress coping styles on sources of acute stress and salivary cortisol inwrestlers. With regard to the criteria and variables of this ...
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Coping style is one of the substantial factors influencing sport achievements insport competitions. The main aim of the present study was to examine the effect ofsport stress coping styles on sources of acute stress and salivary cortisol inwrestlers. With regard to the criteria and variables of this study, 30 out of 270active national wrestlers participated according to the cut-off point of coping stylesquestionnaire in two approach and avoidant coping groups. The participants wereasked to complete Sources of wrestling acute stress questionnaire and to collect thesaliva to measure salivary cortisol levels. Multivariate analysis of variance resultsindicated that sources of acute stress were significantly higher in approach copingwrestlers than avoidant coping group (P=0.001). Also, salivary cortisol level wassignificantly lower in avoidant coping group than the approach coping group(P=0.012). According to the results, different stress coping styles influencedperceived stress of acute stress and salivary cortisol levels in wrestlers. Thefindings of this study can be used in instruction of different sport stress copingstyles in wrestlers in order to reduce their mental pressure in the competitions.
Mohamad Hosein Ghahramani; Alireza Farsi; Mohammad Ali Besharat; Behrouz Abdoli
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This study aimed at exploring the main sources of acute stress in wrestlersregarding the structure and the assessment of reliability and validity of the sourcesof acute stress in wrestlers questionnaire (SASWQ). For this purpose, thisquestionnaire was distributed among a sample of 330 wrestlers (mean ...
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This study aimed at exploring the main sources of acute stress in wrestlersregarding the structure and the assessment of reliability and validity of the sourcesof acute stress in wrestlers questionnaire (SASWQ). For this purpose, thisquestionnaire was distributed among a sample of 330 wrestlers (mean age21.56+5.3) in Tehran who were selected by multistage random sampling method.Analysis of data with SPSS software showed that the Cronbach's alpha for all itemsof this questionnaire was 0.909 and alpha coefficient of the internal consistency forthe first and second section was 0.870 and 0.831 respectively. Content validity ofthe questionnaire showed the equity of each of the 8 principle components of acutestress in wrestlers including skill performance, evaluation, contest, error, prospect,time pressure, injury and environment as 2.43 on average through exploratoryfactor analysis in the principle component analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation.In confirmatory factor analysis with Lisrel software, GFI=0.96, AGFI=0.92 andCFI=0.93 were obtained. The findings showed that SASWQ had acceptablereliability and validity and could measure the mentioned variable in the mentionedstatistical population.
