Sources of strain among elite UK track athletes

Jane McKay; Ailsa G. Niven; David Lavallee; Alison White

Sources of strain among elite UK track athletes

Jane McKay, Ailsa G. Niven, David Lavallee, Alison White

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Abstract

Following the theoretical framework of Lazarus and Folkman (1984), recently adapted to sport (Fletcher, Hanton, & Mellalieu, 2006), 12 elite UK track athletes (M age = 22.7; SD = 2.4 years) participated in semistructured interviews to identify sources of strain. Inductive content analysis identified 11 general dimensions of sources of strain from 664 meaning units, which were subsequently categorized into competitive, organizational, and personal domains. Several sources of strain (e.g., competitive concerns, pressure to perform) were consistent with previous research supporting the suggestion that a core group of stressors may be evident across sports although several sources of strain appeared to be more pertinent to track athletes (e.g., social evaluation and self-presentation concerns) highlighting the need to consider group differences. © 2008 Human Kinetics, Inc.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	143-163
Number of pages	21
Journal	The Sport Psychologist
Volume	22
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008

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