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Personality, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health in High-Performance Athletes During Confinement Derived From the COVID-19 Pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorLeguizamo, Federico
dc.contributor.authorOlmedilla Zafra, Aurelio
dc.contributor.authorNuñez, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPonseti Verdaguer, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorGómez Espejo, Verónica
dc.contributor.authorRuiz Barquín, Roberto
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Mas, Alexandre
dc.contributor.departmentPersonalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Evolutive and Educational Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
dc.contributor.departmentGICAFE (Research Group of Sports Sciences), University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-28T17:50:16Z
dc.date.available2025-01-28T17:50:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-08
dc.description© 2021 Authors This document is the published version of a published work that appeared in final form in Frontiers in Public Health This document is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 To access the final edited and published work see: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.561198
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 outbreak has affected the sports field unprecedentedly. The emergency alert has deprived athletes of training in a suitable environment, as they are faced with cancellations of relevant events in their sports careers. This situation can cause stress levels and other emotional disorders similar to those experienced by athletes during periods of injury. Since the relationship between psychological factors and sports injuries is well-studied, the Global Psychological Model of Sports Injury (MGPLD) is applied to this historical situation for athletes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships between perfectionism and trait anxiety with indicators of mental health (mood, depression, state anxiety, and stress) in high-performance athletes during confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to explore the coping strategies that athletes have applied and whether they are perceived as useful for managing negative emotional states. A cross-sectional study was conducted through online questionnaires during April 2020, adapting the Psychological Assessment Protocol of the High-Performance Sports Center of Murcia (Spain), to assess the psychological effects of confinement in a cross-cultural sample of 310 athletes (141 women and 169 men) from different countries in Europe, Asia, and America, and from diverse sports disciplines. The protocol comprised six instruments that test perfectionism, trait anxiety, mood states, stress, depression, coping strategies, and sleep. It was answered online via Google Forms. The results show that maladaptive perfectionism was related to all the indicators of athletes’ mental health. However, athletes’ levels of anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms are relatively low, and the use of coping strategies such as cognitive restructuring and emotional calm was associated with lower levels of negative emotional states. Besides, the Iceberg Profile, a suitable fit for the mental health model, is observed in the mood of athletes, both in men and in women, although women showed higher levels of anxiety, stress, and depression than men. A strong relationship was observed between maladaptive perfectionism and martial arts sports discipline, superior to other sports. In short, it can be concluded that high-performance athletes in the Leguizamo et al. High-Performance Athletes’ Psychological Impact of COVID-19 studied sample showed negative emotional state values below the expected average. Finally, the proposals for practical applications of the results collected are discussed.es
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dc.identifier.citationFront. Public Health 8:561198.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.561198
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/149497
dc.languageenges
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.relationThis study was partially funded by the Murcia (Spain) Regional Football Association’s Football Project (Grant FFRM-UMU-04 0092 321B 64502 14704), CAR Infanta Cristina, Los Alcázares, Murcia. Ref. N◦: UMU31047-GINVEST10294, and the Erasmus + ELIT-in 590520- EPP-1-2017-1-ES-SPO-SCP, Integration of elite athletes into the labor market through the valorization of their transversal competences.es
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.561198/full
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dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
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dc.subjectSports psychologyes
dc.subjectPersonalityes
dc.subjectHigh-performance athleteses
dc.subjectCopinges
dc.subjectStresses
dc.subjectCOVID-19es
dc.subjectConfinementes
dc.titlePersonality, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health in High-Performance Athletes During Confinement Derived From the COVID-19 Pandemices
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