Losing It: The Importance Of Anxiety and Mood Stabhjty In Sport

Nesti, Mark; Sewell, D. F.

doi:10.1080/10811449908409734

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“…However, as they tested attributional style in relation to athletic failure, the results from their study are limited to this specific context. As athletes may be challenged by a multitude of stressors (Howells & Fletcher, 2015;Moesch et al, 2018;Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014;Schinke, Stambulova, et al, 2018), even at times when athletes are not engaged in their sporting endeavours (Doherty et al, 2016;Nesti & Sewell, 1999), our study deliberately focused on the maladaptive processes that may take place in response to negative/depressed mood, be it due to athletic failure, injury, or any other significant event or situation in the athletes' life.…”

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Me, Myself, and My Thoughts: The Influence of Brooding and Reflective Rumination on Depressive Symptoms in Athletes in the United Kingdom

Tahtinen

McDougall

Feddersen

et al. 2020

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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Individual differences in vulnerability to depression are still underexplored in athletes. We tested the influence of different brooding and reflective rumination profiles (i.e., repetitive thought processes in response to low/depressed mood) on the odds of experiencing clinically relevant depressive symptoms in competitive athletes (N = 286). The Patient Health Questionnaire–9 and the Ruminative Responses Scale–short form were utilized to measure depression and rumination, respectively. Compared to athletes with a low brooding/reflection profile, athletes with a high brooding/reflection profile had significantly higher odds of experiencing clinical levels of depressive symptoms (OR = 13.40, 95% CI = 3.81–47.11). A high reflection/low brooding profile was not, however, related to increased odds of depressive symptoms. Future research could extend our findings by exploring determinants of ruminative tendencies, especially brooding, in athletes. Furthermore, psychological interventions targeting rumination could be examined as a potential prevention and treatment approach to tackling depressive symptoms in athletes.

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Me, Myself, and My Thoughts: The Influence of Brooding and Reflective Rumination on Depressive Symptoms in Athletes in the United Kingdom

Tahtinen

McDougall

Feddersen

et al. 2020

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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“…For psychologists working with athletes, both professional and nonprofessional, it can provide a self-reflective tool which can help in tapping into the questions of identity and meaning when facing transition. Moreover, as Nesti and Sewell (1999) suggest, athletes' diaries can help the psychologist to understand how the broader life concerns affect the athlete's experiences.…”

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Running, Being, and Beijing—An Existential Exploration of a Runner Identity

Ronkainen¹,

Harrison²,

Ryba³

2014

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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In this research, we explore the negotiation of a conflicted runner identity in a Finnish runner's short-term migration to Beijing, China. We examine the historical and cultural construction of the runner identity and discuss the current discourses that constitute the modern runner subjectivities. From there, we continue with a Heideggerian existential-phenomenological analysis of the "boundary situation" when the project of competitive running is challenged due to environmental and cultural barriers in the migration. Our empirical inquiry is based on the first author's autoethnographic account, written during and shortly after her 10-week stay in Beijing in March-June 2011. Two main themes, the loss of control and isolation, are examined, and an existential interpretation is paired with insight from Buddhist psychology. Finally, we conclude with implications for future research in sport and migration studies as well as practical considerations for the use of autoethnography in psychological research and practice.

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“…In addressing this oversight, Nesti and Sewell (1999) wondered why little attention had been directed at understanding the anxiety that athletes may experience in a number of commonly encountered difficult moments such as, career decisions, injury, dropout, having to play out of position, falling out with the coach, moving abroad or dealing with challenging life events. In addressing this oversight, Nesti and Sewell (1999) wondered why little attention had been directed at understanding the anxiety that athletes may experience in a number of commonly encountered difficult moments such as, career decisions, injury, dropout, having to play out of position, falling out with the coach, moving abroad or dealing with challenging life events.…”

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“…Nesti & Sewell, 1999;Ronkainen et al, 2013Ronkainen et al, , 2015. The few existing studies adopting an existential psychology framework have highlighted that athletes bring individual meanings into athletic identity, experiences of anxiety, ageing and the whole course of their athletic careers and these need to be studied in the broader context of their lives (e.g.…”

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An existential approach to sport psychology: Theory and applied practice

Ronkainen

Nesti

2015

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Despite being an established approach in the parent discipline of psychology, existential psychology remains largely absent from sport psychology research and applied practice. The aim of this paper is to address this gap and outline an existential psychological approach for sport psychology. In the first part of the article, we present the philosophical underpinnings of existential psychology and situate it within the dominant approaches in sport psychology. In addition, we explore some of the key concepts of existential psychology including meaning, authenticity, anxiety, loneliness, death and boundary situations. In the second part of the article, we draw from literature on existential therapies and the second author's extensive applied work in professional soccer to outline the basic principles of existential counselling. Finally, we consider future directions for research and applied practice.

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Losing It: The Importance Of Anxiety and Mood Stabhjty In Sport

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Me, Myself, and My Thoughts: The Influence of Brooding and Reflective Rumination on Depressive Symptoms in Athletes in the United Kingdom

Me, Myself, and My Thoughts: The Influence of Brooding and Reflective Rumination on Depressive Symptoms in Athletes in the United Kingdom

Running, Being, and Beijing—An Existential Exploration of a Runner Identity

An existential approach to sport psychology: Theory and applied practice

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