The Divergent Effects of Resilience Qualities and Resilience Support in Predicting Pre-Competition Anxiety and Championship Performance
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Authors | Zhang, S., Wang, L., He, Y. and Liu, J |
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Abstract | Psychological resilience is vital to the development of sport talents. Qualitative research has consistently demonstrated that sport resilience encapsulates a mixed package of resilience qualities (reflecting positive traits and characteristics) and resilience support (reflecting perceived support and related resources). Ironically, sport resilience research adopting quantitative methods has been assessing resilience as a unidimensional construct, with little attention to the multi-facet nature of resilience and its effects on performance. In the present research, we tested a novel proposition that resilience qualities predict reduced pre-competition cognitive anxiety and contribute to performance more than resilience support. Across two samples of competitive table tennis players (Study 1: N = 196 competing at province level; Study 2: N = 106 competing at national level), we consistently found resilience qualities, rather than resilience support, predicted lower levels of pre-competition cognitive anxiety and superior performance at a national championship. Results also suggest that pre-competition cognitive anxiety mediated the relationship between resilience qualities and performance. The findings provide the first evidence supporting the divergent effects of resilience qualities and resilience support in predicting pre-competition anxiety and championship performance and call for the consideration of such a distinction when designing and delivering resilience programmes. |
Keywords | resilience qualities; resilience support; cognitive anxiety; performance |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport |
Journal citation | pp. 1-9 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 2168-3824 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2022.2156446 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02701367.2022.2156446 |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Jan 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 01 Dec 2022 |
Deposited | 30 Jan 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9w30y/the-divergent-effects-of-resilience-qualities-and-resilience-support-in-predicting-pre-competition-anxiety-and-championship-performance
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