TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Attentional patterns involved in coping strategies in a sport context
JO  - Research quarterly for exercise and sport
A1  - Bardel, Marie-Héloïse
A1  - Woodman, Tim
A1  - Colombel, Fabienne
A1  - Le Scanff, Christine
SP  - 597
EP  - 602
VL  - 83
IS  - 4
N2  - We investigated the relationship between coping strategies and attentional bias after a sport competition. We administered the Ways of Coping Checklist (Paulhan, Nuissier, Quintard, Cousson, & Bourgeois, 1994) to 145 athletes immediately after they had participated in a sport competition. We also assessed attentional bias using a dot probe detection task. Results revealed that emotion-focused coping strategies led athletes to orient their attention away from threat, whereas athletes who adopted problem-focused coping strategies focused their attention toward threat. More precisely, problem-focused coping strategies are related to a facilitated detection of threat, not to disengagement difficulties. The vigilance attentional bias seems to be a compensatory strategy to cope with a stressful situation, such as sport competition.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0270-1367
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -