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Stress Management
Stress Management
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MISCONCEPTION 1: STRESS IS
HIGH SITUATIONAL DEMAND
Situations are not inherently stressful because
competitive demands exceed performers response
capabilities such as shooting a free throw or taking a
penalty kick with the game on the line, playing a
tiebreaker in a tennis match, having a sudden death
playoff in golf, or batting with the game tied in the
ninth in baseball.
Olympic Finals, Superbowls, seventh games of NBA,
NHL or Major League Baseball Championship Series,
the final holes of the Masters or a tie breaker at
Wimbleton are not innately stressful.
STRESSFUL LIFE
EVENTS RESEARCH
Individuals who experience stressful life events
such as taking a new job, moving, getting married
or divorced, having a baby, losing a loved one,
dealing with serious medical problems report
higher stress levels than those with mundane lives.
Sport has many competitive experiences that can
be stressful such as playing for a new team, having
a new coach, moving up or down in competitive
level, going through a slump, experiencing lengthy
winning or losing streaks or getting benched or
starting unexpectedly.
STRESS = ACCUMULATION
OF DAILY HASSLES
Lifes daily hassles include: the alarm not going
off, being late for class, missing an
appointment, breaking a shoestring, fighting
with a friend, forgetting an assignment or
burning dinner.
Sport hassles include: equipment malfunctions,
weather problems, your coach is in a bad mood,
a teammate repeatedly makes the same
mistake, and you feel tired and a step slow.
MISCONCEPTION 2: STRESS IS
AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
Heightened activation of the autonomic
nervous system due to perceived threat
doesnt always create stress.
No matter how great the environmental
demand, you will not be stressed as long
as you believe you have the response
capabilities to deal with it.
WHAT IS STRESS?
primary appraisal
secondary appraisal
coping resources
PRIMARY APPRAISAL
planning,
active coping.
EMOTION-MANAGEMENT
Cognitive and behavioral techniques
designed to decrease emotional distress,
even if the source of threat remains
unchanged, boosting morale through . . .
emotional social support,
relaxation,
wishful thinking,
Facilitative
excitement
self-confidence
readiness
Mental Physical
Debilitative
WHAT IS STRESS
MANAGEMENT?
Stress Management is a process
designed to reduce or eliminate the
negative consequences of stress,
particularly mental and physical
anxiety, in order to help performers
feel better emotionally and perform
up to their capabilities.
PROBLEM-SOLVING
STRATEGIES
competitive engineering
personal engineering
problem-solving and
mental plans
COMPETITIVE
ENGINEERING
reducing unnecessary
uncertainty
removing excessive
importance dont
overemphasize winning
PERSONAL
ENGINEERING
arousal-triggered stress
and
thought-triggered stress.
TOTAL EMOTION
MANAGEMENT PACKAGES
rapid relaxation is
combined with self talk
using a systematic process to
develop an integrated
coping response.
TOTAL EMOTION
MANAGEMENT PACKAGES