The Influence of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms on Help-Seeking Intentions in Individual Sport Athletes and Non-Athletes: The Role of Gender and Athlete Status

Tahtinen, Richard; Kristjánsdóttir, Hafrún

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“…In line with our results, Matsumoto et al (2000) observed that elite and non-elite combat athletes show differences in anxiety and mood that result in a competitive advantage for elite. Recently, Tahtinen and Kristjansdottir (2018) observed gender differences regarding the anxiety and depression behaviors in athletes; however, we did not find investigations that performed these analyses in combat sport athletes. Understanding gender differences and the competitive level of athletes can help coaches and psychologists give specific attention to the athlete.…”

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“…Although this study demonstrated that higher-level females were related to a generalized mechanism of emotion regulation. The control and regulation of emotional aspects are preponderant in combat sports performance, since lower emotional control are observed in individual than in team sports (Castro-Sánchez et al, 2018;Tahtinen & Kristjansdottir, 2018). Regarding emotional intelligence differences between level groups, our regression analysis demonstrated that state anxiety and low emotional regulation property negatively affects female performance, while trait anxiety negatively affects male performance.…”

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“…Understanding gender differences and the competitive level of athletes can help coaches and psychologists give specific attention to the athlete. In fact, female combat athletes, tend to seek help from a psychologist when manifesting symptoms of depression, while male fighters avoid help (Tahtinen & Kristjansdottir, 2018).…”

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This study compared the emotional intelligence and state-trait anxiety between competitive level, gender and performance. For this, were measured 444 athletes (female n=171) from jiu-jitsu (n=142), judo (n=137), karate (n=57), kendo (n=63), taekwondo (n=25) and wrestling (n=20). We applied the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) and Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24). The results indicated that high-level female showed lower state anxiety than the low-level [14.0 (1.0; 36.0) vs. 20.0 (1.0; 58.0); p=0.03]. High-level showed lower values than intermediate (p=0.006) and lower-level (p=0.013). The 1st regression, the regulation dimension was the main variable to explain the level of competition for females (R2=0.046), in the 2nd model, the regulation dimension and state anxiety explained the level (R2=0.066). For males, trace anxiety explained the lower-level (R2=0.019). In conclusion, lower-level female athletes are more anxious than lower-males, but in the domains of emotional intelligence, higher-level female showed a higher comprehension and perception than higher-males.

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“…Anxiety is a sensation of uneasiness and worry, typically generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a condition that is only subjectively seen as intimidating (Brandt et al, 2018;Tahtinen and Kristjansdottir, 2018). This feeling has been an essential concept for sports psychology and has demanded intensive investigation in combat sports for its effects on championship performance in karate (Friesen et al, 2018), judo (Matsumoto et al, 2000;Interdonato et al, 2013), kendo (Usui et al, 2018), jiu-jitsu (Andreato et al, 2014), taekwondo (Maloney et al, 2018), and wrestling (Bawa, 2010).…”

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Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence: Comparisons Between Combat Sports, Gender and Levels Using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale and the Inventory of Situations and Anxiety Response

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The present study compared emotional intelligence and anxiety between six combat sports of lower, intermediate and high-level female and male athletes. The sample was composed by 444 athletes (age: 24.7 ± 8.8 years, body mass: 72.4 ± 12.1 kg, height: 1.82 ± 0.3 m, and practice time: 13.1 ± 7.4 years) separated by sex (male n = 273, female n = 171) from different combat sports (jiu-jitsu n = 142, judo n = 137, karate n = 57, kendo n = 63, taekwondo n = 25, and freestyle wrestling n = 20) of three levels (high-level n = 57, intermediate n = 137 and low-level n = 142). Inventory of situations and anxiety response (ISRA) provided an independent evaluation for the three systems: cognitive, motor and physiological, as well as a total with four factors of analysis (anxiety before the evaluation, interpersonal, phobic and before habitual, and daily situations). Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) verified emotional intelligence scales. Descriptive results are demonstrated by percentage or median (first quartile Q1; third quartile Q3), Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were conducted to compare groups, p ≤ 0.05. The main results demonstrated 10% more total anxiety for wrestling and judo compared to the other groups (p ≤ 0.05). Female athletes showed 15% more anxiety than men, while emotional attention demonstrated 10% better results for women. Significant differences were observed between high-versus low-level athletes in the total anxiety with 85 (44; 143) versus 122 (69; 186) of ISRA index and emotional repair with 30 (25; 34) versus 27 (22; 32) of TMMS-24 index. Emotional intelligence seems to be higher in female and in higher level, while anxiety appears to be prevalent in judo and wrestling, low-level and in female athletes. These outcomes provide support for the hypothesis that emotional abilities are an important contributor to emotional intelligence, particularly differentiating high level athletes than other levels. Results can be incorporated into strategies for reducing anxiety and improving emotional intelligence, considering particularities of gender and level groups.

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“…Although attitudes are viewed as a proxy for intentions and behavior (e.g., and researchers have found that attitudes are related to actual help-seeking behaviors , examining actual behaviors would help to get a more accurate picture of student-athlete help-seeking. Recently, some authors have investigated how depression and anxiety symptoms influence help-seeking intentions (Tahtinen & Kristjansdottir, 2018) and actual behavior (Drew & Matthews, 2018). In a recent study of male athletes, attitudes were significantly associated with intentions, although this relationship only accounted for eight percent of the variance (Ramaeker & Petrie, 2019).…”

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Stigma, attitudes, and intentions to seek mental health services in college student-athletes

Hilliard

Watson

Zizzi

2020

Journal of American College Health

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Stigma, attitudes, and intentions to seek mental health services in college student-athletes Robert Hilliard Previous researchers have found several factors that act as barriers to college student-athletes seeking mental health services (López & Levy, 2013; Moore, 2017). One common factor throughout these studies is stigma, which is known to be associated with less favorable attitudes toward seeking help (Moreland et al., 2018). However, researchers have not explored how stigma and attitudes might influence intentions to seek counseling and actual help-seeking behaviors in student-athletes. Additionally, there is a dearth of research identifying the topics for which student-athletes are most willing to seek help. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to investigate predictors of mental health help-seeking as well as identify topics for which college student-athletes are most likely to seek help. The sample consisted of participants (N = 325) from three Division II and III universities. Findings indicated public stigma was significantly related to self-stigma, but social network stigma was not. Self-stigma was related to attitudes and attitudes were related to intentions. Using logistic regression analysis, self-stigma and attitudes were found to be significant predictors of help-seeking behavior. Specifically, both were associated with an increased likelihood of having sought mental health services in the past. Regarding help-seeking topics, drug problems, depression, and excessive alcohol use were the highest rated issues for which student-athletes were likely to seek help, whereas concerns about sexuality, difficulty with friends, and body image were rated the lowest. The results of this study can be used to help sport psychologists and other mental health staff develop programming that might lead to increased service use amongst collegiate student-athletes. Specifically, it appears that using a multifaceted approach to improving attitudes could have the most meaningful effect on encouraging service use. The College Population .

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