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.
Mohammad Sadegh Afroozeh; Hasan Mohammadzadeh Jahatloo; Mostafa Edrisi Kolur; Ali Afroozeh
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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. The population consisted of wrestlers in Urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. This study was performed in three ...
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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. The population consisted of wrestlers in Urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. This study was performed in three sessions with aone-week interval. The first session was held without self–talk while the second andthird sessions were held covertly and overtly respectively. Bruce aerobic exercisetest was used in this study as well. The time to exhaustion was considered asperformance. Burg scale was used every 3 minutes in order to measure subjects'exhaustion. To analyze the data, ANOVA with repeated measures and TUKEY posthoc test was used. The results showed that only covert self-talk had a significanteffect on subjects’ performance (P=0.002). Also, overt motivational self-talk(P=0.001) significantly decreased the subjects' perceived exertion rather thancovert self–talk. There was no significant difference between covert self-talk andwithout self–talk (P=0.121). In conclusion, overt motivational self-talk decreasedthe perceived exertion of the subjects in the progressive exercise until exhaustionwhile covert motivational self-talk improved subjects’ endurance.
Morteza Homayonnia; Alireza Homayoni; Mahmoud Sheikh; Saeid Nazari
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Researchers use resiliency for people who do not show undesirable consequences in terrible and unsafe conditions. Resiliency is often referred to constructive and positive compatibility in order to deal with problems. As athletes cannot cope with their defeats most of the time, they should study ...
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Researchers use resiliency for people who do not show undesirable consequences in terrible and unsafe conditions. Resiliency is often referred to constructive and positive compatibility in order to deal with problems. As athletes cannot cope with their defeats most of the time, they should study this issue and its interaction and acquisition. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and the resiliency in Iranian premier league wrestlers. For this purpose, 80 Iranian premier league wrestlers participated in this study. They were asked to fill out the Persian version of Schutte self–report EI test (SSREIT) and Connor and Davidson resiliency (CD–RISC 2) questionnaire. Mean age of all athletes was 23.8 with standard deviation of 2.85. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between the overall scores of EI and resiliency (P<0.01). Also, there was a positive and significant relationship between the subscales of EI and resiliency (P<0.01). Simultaneous regression analysis results showed that the subscale of perception and expression of emotions had a significant contribution towards explaining and predicting resiliency (P<0.01). Emotion regulation subscale significantly predicted resiliency (P<0.01). Overall, it can be concluded that EI is an effective factor in predicting and improving resiliency of the Iranian premier league athletes and wrestlers and it can increase resiliency of athletes.
