Gender Differences in Adolescent Athletes’ Coping with Interpersonal Stressors in Sport: More Similarities than Differences?

作者：Sharleen Hoar, Peter R.E. Crocker, Nicholas L. Holt, Katherine A. Tamminen · 发表于：Journal of Applied Sport Psychology · 年份：2010 · DOI：10.1080/10413201003664640 · 被引用次数：44 · 研究领域：Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports、Sport Psychology and Performance、Youth Development and Social Support

This study examined gender differences in the types of coping strategies adolescent athletes use to manage sport-related interpersonal stress. To explain gender coping differences, the dispositional and situational gender coping hypotheses were explored (Tamres, Janicki, & Helgenson, 2002 Smith, A. L. 2003. Peer relationships in physical activity contexts: a road less traveled in youth sport and exercise psychology research. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 4: 25–39. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Adolescent athletes from Western Canada (N = 524) completed measures of stress appraisal and coping-strategy use in response to a self-selected interpersonal stress source in sport. Results revealed gender differences, but only in select coping strategies. Gendered-coping was not robust across interpersonal sources of stress, providing partial support for the situational gender coping hypothesis. The results are discussed in relation to stress processes that mediate gendered coping as well as the implications for practitioner assistance in youth athletes’ stress-management.