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Alireza Bahramy

Alireza Bahramy

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9360-9373
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 57211584512
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Faculty: Sport Sciences
Address: Arak University
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Research

Title
An analysis and comparison of mental toughness and coping skills between soccer and futsal players in juniors first League
Type
Presentation
Keywords
comparison, toughness,coping,skills
Year
2009
Researchers Alireza Bahramy ، Hasan Kordi ، Ashraf Hediehloo

Abstract

The inability to effectively deal with stress-raising factors is harmful to athletes’ performance and success ( Campen & Roberts, 2001; Skinner et al, 2003; Pensgaard and Roberts, 2003) . Athletes can cope with these factors. Coping is a conscious effort to encounter stressraising factors ( Stone et al, 1992). According to Roth, Cohen, and Krohne, there are two approaches to cope with stress; approached coping and avoidant coping. In addition, Folkman and Lazarus (1980) suggest problem- focused and emotional-focused copings ( Besharat, 2006; Feiz et al, 2001). Avoidant behavior is more effective than approached in coping with severe stress which happens in sports competitions ( Behsarat, 2003). There is a significant relationship between the method of approached coping with improper anxiety and the worsening of performance ( Krohne & Hindel, 1988). Based on Rice, Sheridan and Radmacher (1992), emotional-focused strategy may temporarily decrease strain, but it causes physical and psychological problems in the long term ( Feiz et al, 2001). Mental toughness has a multidimensional structure and all individuals have some dimension of it ( Kosaka, 1996). Tough people pay more attention to effort, perseverance and action than luck ( Shokrkon, 1994). Evaluation of mental traits of Olympic champions showed that mental toughness can play a significant role in improving athletic performance ( Narimani et al, 2004 ). The findings prove that elite athletes are tougher than novice (Hatton & Evans, 2002 ), and also indicate that non-tough individuals use the emotional-focused more than tough individuals ( Feiz et al, 2001). Soccer and futsal are a kind of sport with share many performance similarities. Such similarities made us carry out a research studying a number of mental variables such as coping methods and mental toughness which impact the performance of the athletes in these two sports.