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Article: Sources of acute stress, cognitive appraisal, and coping strategies among highly skilled Mexican and U.S. competitive tennis players.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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INVESTIGATORS HAVE EXAMINED COPING widely, defining it as "constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific internal and/or external demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of a person" (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p. 141). Researchers in the general psychology (Lazarus, 2000) and sports psychology (Dugsdale, Eklund, & Gordon, 2002) literatures have found that the failure to cope effectively with stressful events may affect important emotional, cognitive, and somatic factors. With respect to motor performance, poor coping skills may heighten muscular tension and distract the athlete from focusing attention on the task at hand, ...