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REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y EL DEPORTE

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PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE IN ELITE ATHLETES: COPING MECHANISMS AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES

Issue Volume 24, Number 96, 2024 Articles 
Carla Mendez
Department of Sports Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

The research aims to determine psychological resilience in elite athletes. For elite athletes, the coping mechanisms are sport-oriented, using different managing and coping styles to address the issue. Efforts like task management and problem addressing are made so that the elite sportsmen become more and more familiar with the stressful environment and its coping mechanism. The research based on primary data analysis to determine the study used SPSS software and generated results, including descriptive, ANOVA, linear regression, and chi-square between the coping mechanisms and mental health outcomes. Resilient elite athletes show healthy lifestyles no matter how stressful the environment they face and can seek support from their social linkages while addressing problem-solving tactics. The athletes with low coping self-efficacy have clearly shown signs of reduced confidence and uncertainty in finding a solution to the problem they have been given. Toconclude, resilient elite athletes have positive mechanisms for coping with negative situations while maintaining their mental wellbeing. The overall result directly linked coping mechanisms and mental health outcomes.

Keywords: Psychological Resilience PR), Elite Athletes (EA), Coping Mechanisms (CM), Mental Health Outcomes (MHO)
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Periodicidad Trimestral/Quartely
Revista multidisciplinar de las Ciencias del Deporte
ISSN: 1577-0354
All journal articles are published in Spanish together with their corresponding translation into English

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