Objectives
Stress and coping in sport psychology have mainly been examined from an intrapersonal perspective, which limits our knowledge of how athletes collectively cope with sport-related demands as a team. The present research, therefore, addresses the lack of knowledge about how communal coping happens within sports teams. The aims were firstly to explore the extent to which communal coping strategies are shared within sports teams and secondly to provide further evidence of communal coping as a team construct.
Material and methods
A total of 356 French team sport athletes from 54 teams completed an online questionnaire measuring individual coping, communal coping and cohesion.
Results
Firstly, results of intraclass correlation coefficients showed that some communal coping strategies were strongly shared (i.e., motivational support, emotion-venting strategies), whereas some were weakly shared (i.e., compensation, humour strategies). Secondly, results of correlation and regression analyses showed associations between communal coping and task cohesion indicating a meaningful relationship between both team constructs.
Conclusion
The present study, therefore, adds validity to the communal coping as a team construct, and advances knowledge on communal coping within sports teams, suggesting a move should be made from “coping in a team” toward “coping of a team” as an approach in future research and coping intervention programmes among sports teams or groups.
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