Resilient Resources in Youth Athletes and Their Relationship with Anxiety in Different Team Sports
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González Hernández, JuanEditorial
MDPI
Materia
Handball Basketball Resilience Self-confidence Acceptance Competence
Fecha
2020-08-01Referencia bibliográfica
González-Hernández, J., Gomariz-Gea, M., Valero-Valenzuela, A., & Gómez-López, M. (2020). Resilient Resources in Youth Athletes and Their Relationship with Anxiety in Different Team Sports. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5569. [doi:10.3390/ijerph17155569]
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Royal Spanish Handball Federation (RFEBM)Resumen
The objective of this study is to show the links and differences in the expressions of
competitive anxiety in the face of the existence of resilient resources in young athletes, according
to sporting (years of experience) and personal (gender) characteristics. To meet these aims, the
participants answered the Resilience Scale (RS-14) and the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2R
(CSAI-2R). The sample consisted of 241 adolescent handball and basketball players between 14 and
17 years old. Different analyses were performed, including a differential and multivariate descriptive,
a correlation, and a multiple regression. The results showed that anxiety was negatively related to
resilience in its acceptance dimension. It was shown that girls showed higher levels of somatic anxiety,
while boys showed higher levels of acceptance. Statistically significant differences were found in the
resources for acceptance in favor of boys, while there were significantly different indicators in somatic
anxiety and self-confidence in favor of girls. The sports experience was positively related to resilience
and negatively to anxiety. Although the existence of indicators of cognitive anxiety (e.g., recurrent
thoughts or rhyming), coaches and athletes need to understand that they are also indicators of a
necessary activation for psychological functioning. Channeling such a process through psychological
training of different skills will enhance the capacities for self-confidence.