Costa Sergio, Santi Giampaolo, di Fronso Selenia, Montesano Cristina, Di Gruttola Francesco, Ciofi Edoardo Giorgio, Morgilli Luana, Bertollo Maurizio
Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
Department of Life Quality Studies, University "Alma Mater Studiorum" of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Sport Sci Health. 2020;16(4):609-618. doi: 10.1007/s11332-020-00677-9. Epub 2020 Aug 31.
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the sporting field, with athletes constrained in home isolation without the possibility to train and compete in their usual environments. This situation has been investigated within the theoretical frameworks of athletic identity and cognitive emotion regulation.
The objectives of our investigation were to: (a) validate the athletic identity measurement scale (AIMS) for use in Italian language; and (b) explore differences by gender, typology of sport (individual vs. team), and competitive level (elite vs. non-elite) in athletic identity and in cognitive emotion regulation during the Covid-19 lockdown period.
To achieve these objectives, the reliability and construct validity of the Italian version of the AIMS have been tested in Study 1. Multivariate and univariate analyses were run to evaluate differences between different groups of athletes in Study 2.
Results from Study 1 suggest a 3-factor higher order model of athletic identity. Results from Study 2 highlight that, during this lockdown period, elite athletes and team sports athletes show higher athletic identity. Cognitive emotion regulation strategies are different for gender and for competitive level. Finally, athletes with higher athletic identity tend to ruminate and catastrophize more.
The present multi-study paper contributes to the theoretical field with a validated measure of athletic identity in Italian language. It also provides some practical implications that could apply in this situation of isolation and can be extended to cases such as those of injury or illness.
新冠疫情对体育领域产生了影响，运动员被限制在家中隔离，无法在其通常的环境中进行训练和比赛。这种情况已在运动身份认同和认知情绪调节的理论框架内进行了研究。
我们调查的目的是：（a）验证意大利语版的运动身份测量量表（AIMS）；（b）探讨在新冠疫情封锁期间，按性别、运动类型（个人项目与团体项目）和竞技水平（精英与非精英）划分，运动员在运动身份认同和认知情绪调节方面的差异。
为实现这些目标，在研究1中测试了意大利语版AIMS的信度和结构效度。在研究2中进行了多变量和单变量分析，以评估不同运动员群体之间的差异。
研究1的结果表明运动身份认同存在一个三因素高阶模型。研究2的结果突出表明，在这段封锁期间，精英运动员和团体项目运动员表现出更高的运动身份认同。认知情绪调节策略在性别和竞技水平方面存在差异。最后，运动身份认同较高的运动员往往更容易反复思考和灾难化。
本多篇研究论文通过验证意大利语版的运动身份认同测量方法，为理论领域做出了贡献。它还提供了一些在这种隔离情况下适用的实际意义，并且可以扩展到受伤或患病等情况。
