Perception of and coping with organizational and media stress in elite sport: does the coach matter?
Doctoral thesis
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Grounded within the motivational framework of Achievement Goal Theory (AGT)
and the transactional stress perspective, the purpose of the present dissertation was to
investigate how elite athletes perceive and cope with organizational and media stressors. The evidence from all six papers supports the usefulness of the transactional stress
perspective to study stress perceived by elite athletes’. Categories of organizational stressors
(core categories such as coach and team issues and also cultural peculiarities) and media
stress (positive and negative coverage as well as the journalists) were perceived as stressful in
the 6 papers. Use of coping strategies such as coach support, social support, problem-focused
strategies, and avoidance coping were used by participants to cope with both organizational
and media stressors. Data analysis revealed further evidence that elite athletes’ perceptions of
stress may be influenced by the motivational climate created by the coach; hence, creating
and maintaining mastery oriented climates can reduce stress as an adaptive coping strategy. Paper I: Young elite athletes and social support: Coping with competitive and
organizational stress in “Olympic” competition.
Elsa Kristiansen & Glyn C. Roberts
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine Science in Sports, 20, 686-695 Paper II: Coping with stress in American soccer
Elsa Kristiansen, Daniel Murphy, & Glyn C. Roberts
Accepted pending revision, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology Paper III: Organizational and media stress among professional football players:
Testing an Achievement Goal Theory model
Elsa Kristiansen, Hallgeir Halvari, & Glyn C. Roberts
In press, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine Science in Sports Paper IV: Coping with negative media content: The experiences of professional
football goalkeepers
Elsa Kristiansen, Glyn C. Roberts, & Mari Kristin Sisjord
In press, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 9 (4), 2011 Paper V: Media exposure and adaptive coping in elite football
Elsa Kristiansen & Glyn C. Roberts
In press, International Journal of Sport Psychology Paper VI: Coping with the media at the Vancouver Winter Olympics: “We all make
a living out of this”
Elsa Kristiansen, Dag Vidar Hanstad, & Glyn C. Roberts
Accepted pending revision, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
Beskrivelse
Avhandling (doktorgrad) – Norges idrettshøgskole, 2011.