4: Stress Flashcards

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stress

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an experience by person where resources cannot meet demands of the environment

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stress response

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physiological, behavioural, emotional reactions to stress

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3
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stressor

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percieved demands person appraises as stressful

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4
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CMRT

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cognitive motivational relational theory: theory that 15 core emotions (pos/neg) can relational theme that describes relationship between person and environmental

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5
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describe 5 sources of stress in sports

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  1. psychological: self doubt, self criticism, performance anxiety
  2. physical: body, injuries, again
  3. social: coach, teammateaes, ppl watching
  4. environmental: weather, setting
  5. career: job safety
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acute/chronic stressor

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acute: short period of time ex) opponent scores
chronic: long period of time
ex) coach conflict, negative though patterns

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expected/unexpected stressor

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unexpected more stressful bc unprepared, not anticipated

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8
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describe the appraisal process

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  • key for identifying what’s stressful
  • occurs rapidly together, can move back and forth
    primary: WHAT is stressful, “WHAT’S at stake”
    secondary: HOW can i change, “WHAT can be done”
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describe appraisal process- secondary appraisal

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evaluation of situations

  • harm/loss appraisal: psychological damage/loss already occured
  • threat app: anticipating harm may occur
  • challenge: will be hard, but i can overcome challenge
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competitive/non competitive stressors

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  • comp: before/during/immediately competition (results, injury, poor officiating)
  • noncomp: still related to sport but not directly related to performance (team meetings, travelling, rehab, media)
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non competitive stressors

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include environmental stressors (indiviual’s organization)

  1. Intrinsic factors (training, competition load, travel injury)
  2. Roles (team captain)
  3. Career (income, fundings)
  4. Relationships (support, leadership)
  5. Organization/climate part
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emotions

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response to event/quick, quick onsetm short duration, cognitive appraisal, distinct physiological patterns, subjective feelings)

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endocrine response

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-emotion/stress characterized by cortisol/epinephrine
+positive emotions: greater cognitive activity in left prefrontal cortical areas in brain
-negative emotions: in right prefontal cortical areas in brain

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14
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emotions and facial expressions

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emotions linked to disinct facial expressions

  • happiness: raised eyebrows, smiling, widening eyes
    anger: furrowed eyeborw, frowinging, lips pressed firmly
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15
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physiologocal effects linked to anxiety

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increased heart rate, respiratory rate, skin conductance

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16
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difference in cardiovascular patterns of threat and challenge appraisal

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both increased heart rate, stroke volume, global, cardiac output
difference in phenomena and cardiovascular levels
challenge: increase ventricular contraction, decrease in vascular resistance
threat: increase ventricular contraction, no decrease in vascular resistance -> high BP

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coping

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dynamic process where indivual puts in cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage appraised stressors
-manage external and internal demands

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management skills

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routine/autonomic process athletes in to prevent stress from happening in first place
ex) soccer player wearing shinguards bc angry when other people kick him becomes routine

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how are coping and management skills related

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-stress management is dynamic (constantly changing), coping strategy could become routine -> management skill

20
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what does coping depend on

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coping resources and perceived outcome

21
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micro analytic approach

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organize/describe how athletes cope

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macro analytic approach

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organize/categorize WHY athletes use particular coping strategies based on goals/functions of coping

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describe 3 macro-level distinction

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-problem focused coping
efforts directed at changing transaction/stressor directly
ex) new equipment, new game plan
-emotion focused coping
efforts directed at changing emotional response without changing transaction
ex)convincing self no one cares what exercise their doing
-avoidance coping: athlete removes/disengages mentally/physically from situation
ex)quitting

24
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Coping Inventory for Competitive Sports

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  • for Francophone, Anglopphone
  • integrate micro and macro

coping DIMENSIONS for coping strategies

  • task: thought control, logical analysis, seeking support, mental imagery
  • distracted: mental distraction/mental
  • disengagement: venting, disengagement
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coping dimensions

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-task orienteed: dealing w source of stress and thoughts/emotion
problem focused + emotional focused
ex) logical analysis, effort expenditure, thought control, mental imagery, seeking support
-disengagement: disengagment during goal reaching
ex) venting, withdrawal
-distraction: distance/mental distraction

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adaptive vs maladaptive

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adaptive: more positive outcomes, related to problem focused
maladaptive: more negative outcomes, avoidance outcome

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emotion regulation

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  • indiviuals which emotions they have/express/when/how they experience
  • conscious/effortful and autonomic/unconsious
28
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emotion regulation strategies

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  1. Situational selection: actions to increase likelihood of being in situations that promote desired emotion
    ex) choose which seat
  2. Situation modification: influence situation directly
    ex)apology for body checking
  3. Attentional deployment:
    direct attention towards or away from situation
    ex) rumination, avoidance
  4. Cognitive change: change emotional significance by changing how one thinks about event
    “I didn’t make top 5, I can challenge someone else and get more watertime and improve.”
  5. Response modulation: physiological, behavioural, experiential to regulate emotions
    ex) hiding anger at ref for making call
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difference between coping and and outcome of coping

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coping is putting in efforts to deal with stress, outcome is result of coping efforts

30
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perceived coping effectiveness

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based on athletes perceived outcome if the coping reduced the unwanted stressor

31
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good news coping and bad news coping

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good news: organized, flexible, contstructive attempts

bad news: rigid, disorganized, destructive

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achievement outcomes of task orienteed

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task orienteed likely to attain better outcomes because more focused on goals and self improvement

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emotional outcomes

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  • task orienteed: positive emotional states

- avoidance: negatively related to negative states

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physical outcomes

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improving coping skills and decrease risk of injury because anxiety contributes to mnuscle tension, change in information perception

35
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describe factors that affect coping

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gender
-no real proof but women might have to manage self presentation in beach bolleyball
culture
-culture strongly influences our values and what we find important
-indiviual characteristics: age/development/experience, personality, cognitive appraisal
-social/environment: coaching/teammates

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burnout

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condition 3 characteristics: physical exhaustion, deevaulate sport, deevaulate achievements

37
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coping/emotion regulation interventions

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  • self compassion: desire to be moved by one’s suffering, wants to reduce suffering
  • 3 characteristics: self kindness, mindfulness, common humanity
38
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strategies for improving coping

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  • expressive writing: part of therapeutal process- can look back and self reflect, give disclose (somewhere to release pain)
  • training logs/journal: what worked or what didnt work and why, allows you to anticipate for future stressors