Impact of Resilience on Stress and Recovery in Athletes

Abstract

Introduction: Resilience is a positive psychological characteristic that reflects an individual's capacity to better perceive, deal with, and overcome adversity; the sports environment is replete with adversities, which increase athletes' stress levels and may lead to undesirable outcomes. Objective: To analyze the impact of resilience levels on stress and recovery in athletes. Methods: Subjects were 150 athletes (aged 22.46 ± 5.97) of both sexes (92 men and 58 women) who competed in the 2012 Paraná Open Games in different sports (107 in team and 43 in individual sports). Instruments were the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire (RESTQ-76 Sport) and a resilience questionnaire (CD-RISC-10). The following tests were used for data analysis: Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, Spearman Correlation Coefficient and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Results: The model significantly explained stress and recovery variability in 20% and 22%, respectively; age-predicted resilience was 11%; the model invariance test indicated a significant influence of sex and type of sport (multi-group analysis). Conclusion: Resilience plays an essential role in coping with and recovering from stress in competitive sports contexts, which is considered a determinant of success. Level of Evidence II; Retrospective study.

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“…In this line, past sport research suggests that resilience is positively related to other psychological resources such as self-efficacy ( Cardoso and Sacomori, 2014 ), optimism and coping strategies ( Belem et al, 2014 ), and intrinsic motivation and self-regulation ( Brown et al, 2015 ). In contrast, resilience in athletes has been negatively related to pessimism, self-blame, anxiety, and depression ( Sarkar and Fletcher, 2014 ) as well as to stress and burnout ( Codonhato et al, 2018 ; Wagstaff et al, 2018 ). In the same way, previous literature in university student athletes demonstrated that resilience had a positive relationship with performance and psychological well-being and a negative relationship with psychological disorders ( Hosseini and Besharat, 2010 ).…”

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