Organisational Stressors, Coping, and Coping Effectiveness: A Longitudinal Study with an Elite Coach

By Andrew R. Levy, A. Nicholls, David C. Marchant, Remco Polman. 2009

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The purpose of this study was to examine organisational stressors, coping, and perceptions of coping effectiveness with an elite coach. The participant completed a daily diary over a 28-day period. Each diary entry consisted of an open-ended stressor, a coping response section, and a Likert-type scale measure of coping effectiveness. Inductive and deductive content analysis procedures were used to analyse the diaries, in addition to frequency data which were obtained for both stressors and coping strategies. Findings indicated administration, overload, competition environment, the athletes, and team atmosphere were the salient organisational stressors. Coping strategies used to alleviate such stressors were communication, preparation, planning, social support, and self-talk. These strategies were generally effective, but coping effectiveness declined over the 28-days.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. J. Côté
2. Wade D. Gilbert
3. Henrik Gustafsson
4. Joanne Butt
5. P. Hassmén
6. K. Hays
7. I. Maynard
8. J. Fraser-Thomas

In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. Wade D. Gilbert
2. J. Côté
3. Joanne Butt
4. P. Hassmén
5. David J. Hancock
6. Martin Camiré
7. J. Baker

Citations in the corpus

• An Integrative Definition of Coaching Effectiveness and Expertise (2009, background): “The titles of these articles contain the following labels to describe their samples: successful, experienced, elite, expert, and great, and no two studies used the same criteria to identify their participants [14-18].”
• Stress and Coping: A Study of World Class Coaches (2010, background): “To address this, Levy et al. (2009), conducted a longitudinal study examining organizational stressors, coping strategies, and coping effectiveness with an elite coach.”
• An interpretative phenomenological analysis of burnout and recovery in elite soccer coaches (2012, background): “2009 ) have identified a number of perceived stressors in their work environment.”