Stress Well-Being and Performance in Sport

<p><em>Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport</em> provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. It explores how athletes’, coaches', and support staffs' performance can be enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their well-being in contemporary sport.</p><p>Divided into four sections following the stress process, <i>Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport</i> covers key topics including:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Appraising and coping with stress in sport</li> <p> </p> <li>Responses to and outcomes of stress in sport</li> <p> </p> <li>Moderators of the stress process in sport</li> <p> </p> <li>Stress management to promote thriving in sport</li> </ul><p>Bringing together theory and practice, each chapter discusses conceptual and theoretical issues, current research, and innovative practical implications. Written by scholars around the globe, <i>Stress, Well-being, and Performance in Sport </i>offers an international perspective<i>.</i> It is important reading for students of sport psychology as well as coaches, athletes, and support staff.</p> <p>SECTION I</p><p>Appraising and Coping With Stress in Sport 29</p><p>1 Stressors, Hassles, and Adversity 31</p><p>RACHEL ARNOLD AND DAVID FLETCHER</p><p>2 Cognitive Appraisals 63</p><p>FAYE F. DIDYMUS AND MARC V. JONES</p><p>3 Coping 78</p><p>KATHERINE A. TAMMINEN</p><p>SECTION II</p><p>Responses to and Outcomes of Stress in Sport 95</p><p>4 Emotions 97</p><p>CHRISTOPHER R. D. WAGSTAFF AND KATHERINE A. TAMMINEN</p><p>5 Attention and Visuomotor Performance Under Pressure 113</p><p>LEE J. MOORE, SAMUEL J. VINE, AND MARK R. WILSON</p><p>6 Well-Being and Quality of Life 131</p><p>CAROLINA LUNDQVIST</p><p>7 Burnout 148</p><p>J. D. DEFREESE AND ROBERT C. EKLUND</p><p>8 Mental Health 167</p><p>SIMON RICE, COURTNEY C. WALTON, KATE GWYTHER, AND ROSEMARY PURCELL</p><p>SECTION III</p><p>Moderators of the Stress Process in Sport 189</p><p>9 Stress-Related Growth and Resilience 191</p><p>DAVID FLETCHER</p><p>10 Personality 222</p><p>SYLVAIN LABORDE, SINIKKA HEISLER, AND EMMA MOSLEY</p><p>11 Social Support 240</p><p>PAUL FREEMAN</p><p>SECTION IV</p><p>Stress Management to Promote Thriving in Sport 259</p><p>12 Stress and Pressure Training 261</p><p>DAVID FLETCHER AND RACHEL ARNOLD</p><p>13 Thriving 297</p><p>DANIEL J. BROWN, MICHAEL PASSAPORTIS, AND KATE HAYS</p><p>14 Duties of Care and Welfare Practices 313</p><p>EMMA KAVANAGH, DANIEL RHIND, AND GENEVIEVE GORDON-THOMSON</p><p>Conclusion 332</p><p>RACHEL ARNOLD AND DAVID FLETCHER</p><p>Epilogue 341</p><p>CARY L. COOPER</p>