Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study
<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Playing competitive sports is associated with stress, especially during the starting season. Disabled athletes are additionally burdened with physical and/or emotional factors, resulting from the trauma they have experienced. The aim of the work was to a...
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doaj-23d252c01f7742218749afb1fe19faee2020-11-25T02:23:53ZengMDPI AGMedicina1010-660X2020-04-015621121110.3390/medicina56050211Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary StudyAgnieszka Turoń-Skrzypińska0Wioletta Pawlukowska1Aleksandra Szylińska2Natalia Tomska3Anna Mikołajczyk-Kocięcka4Magdalena Ptak5Grażyna Dutkiewicz6Iwona Rotter7Department of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, PolandDepartment of Medical Rehabilitation and Clinical Rehabilitation, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Żołnierska 54, 71-210 Szczecin, Poland<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Playing competitive sports is associated with stress, especially during the starting season. Disabled athletes are additionally burdened with physical and/or emotional factors, resulting from the trauma they have experienced. The aim of the work was to assess the relationship between strategies of coping with stress and the level of education, category of disability and its duration of handcyclists before the competition. <i>Materials and Methods</i>: 44 handcyclists with a mean age of 41.8 ± 11.6, from European countries, were divided according to the severity of mobility impairments, education and duration of the disability. The participants were asked to fill in the Mini-COPE Inventory for Measuring Coping with Stress, which provided answers in writing to some sociodemographic questions regarding age, sex, education, type of mobility impairment and duration of the disability. <i>Results:</i> The subjects who had suffered spinal injury at the cervical section obtained the lowest scores regarding their subjective assessment of their active stress management in difficult situations (<i>p</i> = 0.007). They scored the lowest, 1.5 points, when asked about acceptance in difficult circumstances compared to those with university education (<i>p</i> = 0.02). A statistically significant correlation was found to exist between education levels and positive revaluation, acceptance and seeking instrumental support. A negative correlation was observed between education and sustained use of psychoactive substances and denial. <i>Conclusions:</i> Highly educated cyclists with short-lasting disability, damage to the lower spine section or amputations tend to cope better with stress than other study participants.https://www.mdpi.com/1010-660X/56/5/211Paralympic sporthandbikecopingstresselite athleteshandcycling |
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Agnieszka Turoń-Skrzypińska Wioletta Pawlukowska Aleksandra Szylińska Natalia Tomska Anna Mikołajczyk-Kocięcka Magdalena Ptak Grażyna Dutkiewicz Iwona Rotter |
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Agnieszka Turoń-Skrzypińska Wioletta Pawlukowska Aleksandra Szylińska Natalia Tomska Anna Mikołajczyk-Kocięcka Magdalena Ptak Grażyna Dutkiewicz Iwona Rotter Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study Medicina Paralympic sport handbike coping stress elite athletes handcycling |
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Agnieszka Turoń-Skrzypińska Wioletta Pawlukowska Aleksandra Szylińska Natalia Tomska Anna Mikołajczyk-Kocięcka Magdalena Ptak Grażyna Dutkiewicz Iwona Rotter |
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Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study |
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Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study |
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Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study |
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Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study |
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Assessment of the Relationship between Selected Factors and Stress-Coping Strategies in Handcyclists—A Preliminary Study |
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assessment of the relationship between selected factors and stress-coping strategies in handcyclists—a preliminary study |
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Medicina |
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<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Playing competitive sports is associated with stress, especially during the starting season. Disabled athletes are additionally burdened with physical and/or emotional factors, resulting from the trauma they have experienced. The aim of the work was to assess the relationship between strategies of coping with stress and the level of education, category of disability and its duration of handcyclists before the competition. <i>Materials and Methods</i>: 44 handcyclists with a mean age of 41.8 ± 11.6, from European countries, were divided according to the severity of mobility impairments, education and duration of the disability. The participants were asked to fill in the Mini-COPE Inventory for Measuring Coping with Stress, which provided answers in writing to some sociodemographic questions regarding age, sex, education, type of mobility impairment and duration of the disability. <i>Results:</i> The subjects who had suffered spinal injury at the cervical section obtained the lowest scores regarding their subjective assessment of their active stress management in difficult situations (<i>p</i> = 0.007). They scored the lowest, 1.5 points, when asked about acceptance in difficult circumstances compared to those with university education (<i>p</i> = 0.02). A statistically significant correlation was found to exist between education levels and positive revaluation, acceptance and seeking instrumental support. A negative correlation was observed between education and sustained use of psychoactive substances and denial. <i>Conclusions:</i> Highly educated cyclists with short-lasting disability, damage to the lower spine section or amputations tend to cope better with stress than other study participants. |
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