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- Abstract
- Hypothesized Cognitive Predictors of Perceived Stress and Recovery
- Exercise Intensity Tolerance
- Pain Catastrophizing
- Perceived Susceptibility to Sport Injury
- Chronic Psychological Stress
- Study Purpose
- Method
- Participants and Procedure
- Measures
- Perceived stress and recovery
- Exercise intensity tolerance
- Pain catastrophizing
- Perceived susceptibility to sport injury
- Chronic psychological stress
- Data Analysis
- Specification and identification
- Data and estimation
- Evaluation of model fit
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
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Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to identify psychological predictors (i.e., exercise intensity tolerance, pain catastrophizing, perceived susceptibility to sport injury, and chronic psychological stress) of perceived acute stress and recovery responses. Athletes (N = 493, M age = 20.04 years, SD = 2.15 years) completed a battery of online psychological questionnaires. Structural equation modeling results indicated that exercise intensity tolerance, pain catastrophizing, perceived susceptibility to sport injury, and chronic psychological stress had a direct positive effect on perceived stress. In addition, exercise intensity tolerance had a direct positive effect on perceived recovery, whereas pain catastrophizing, perceived susceptibility to sport injury, and chronic psychological stress had a direct negative effect on perceived recovery. Age, gender, and sport type were the only demographic variables considered for indirect effects on perceived stress and recovery. Gender was the only significant variable. The current data provide evidence for practitioners’ consideration of monitoring individual-specific psychological predictors of perceived stress and recovery.
Previous research indicates that perceptions of stress and recovery are related to athlete health and performance (Collette, Kellmann, Ferrauti, Meyer, & Pfeiffer, 2018; Nicolas, Vacher, Martinent, & Mourot, 2017). Stress is described as the collection of demands (e.g., life stressors, training load) that disturb the homeostasis of physiological and metabolic processes, whereas recovery is described as a multifaceted restorative process that is passive, active, or proactive-oriented and can be disrupted by external or internal factors (Kellmann et al., 2018). Kellmann and Kallus (2001) used the “scissors model” to explain the interrelation of stress states and recovery demands, whereby increases in stress require equal increases in recovery to maintain optimal levels of performance (Kellmann et al., 2018). Given the established importance of athlete perceptions of stress and...