Čopec Dajana, Karlović Vragolov Matea, Buško Vesna
Mental Training Center d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia.
Department of Kinesiological Anthropology and Methodology, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 24;13:829053. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.829053. eCollection 2022.
Personality has widely been documented to play an important role in the cognitive appraisal and stress processes. Emerging studies highlight the stress mindset as a new concept that could add to the understanding of individual differences in stress experiences. This study aimed to examine the relative contribution of Big Five personality dimensions and stress mindset in accounting for measures of cognitive appraisals of stress among the competing athletes. The study was conducted on a sample of 125 collegiate athletes of both genders who actively compete in sport. All the participants were regular undergraduate or graduate students at the Faculty of Kinesiology of the University of Zagreb. A questionnaire including demographic information about athletes and their sport career, stress mindset measure (SMM), situation-specific cognitive appraisal scale, sources of stress scale, and personality scale measured by IPIP-50 was administered in an online form using the Google Forms platform. Multivariate hierarchical regression procedures resulted in somewhat different predictor structures accounting for cognitive appraisals of threat, loss, and challenge, used as criterion variables. The set of Big Five personality dimensions and stress mindset measure proved to have a significant additive contribution to the explanation of each of the three cognitive appraisal criterion variances. The study results support the current body of literature suggesting a unique role of the stress mindset construct in explaining individual differences in cognitive stress appraisal among athletes above and beyond general personality dimensions.
人格在认知评估和压力过程中发挥重要作用，这一点已有广泛记载。新兴研究强调压力心态是一个新概念，有助于增进对压力体验中个体差异的理解。本研究旨在考察大五人格维度和压力心态在解释竞技运动员压力认知评估指标方面的相对贡献。该研究以125名积极参加体育比赛的男女大学生运动员为样本。所有参与者均为萨格勒布大学运动机能学系的普通本科生或研究生。通过谷歌表单平台以在线形式发放一份问卷，内容包括运动员的人口统计学信息及其运动生涯、压力心态量表（SMM）、特定情境认知评估量表、压力源量表以及使用IPIP - 50测量的人格量表。多元层次回归程序得出了略有不同的预测变量结构，用于解释作为标准变量的威胁、损失和挑战的认知评估。事实证明，大五人格维度和压力心态量表对解释这三个认知评估标准方差中的每一个都有显著的累加贡献。研究结果支持了当前的文献观点，即压力心态结构在解释运动员认知压力评估中的个体差异方面具有独特作用，这一作用超出了一般人格维度。
