Abstract des Autors

The authors investigated the relationship between coping strategies and attentional bias after a sport competition. The authors administered the Ways of Coping Checklist to 145 athletes immediately after they had participated in a sport competition. The authors also assessed attentional bias using a dot probe detection task. Results revealed that emotion-focused coping strategies led athletes to orient their attention away from threat, whereas athletes who adopted problem-focused coping strategies focused their attention toward threat. More precisely, problem-focused coping strategies are related to a facilitated detection of threat, not to disengagement difficulties. The vigilance attentional bias seems to be a compensatory strategy to cope with a stressful situation, such as sport competition. Verf.-Referat (geändert)