Coping with the Stress by Students Doing Sports Professionally

Abstract

At the time of the commercialization of sport and the pressure on the achievements and rivalry between all sportsmen, it is impossible to ignore the issue that is directly related to sport. This is the stress amongst sportsmen that is, more and more often, the issue that sport psychologists focus their attention on in their research. On the master level of any discipline, even the slightest hesitation can deprive someone of a dreamed medal or result and this hesitation is very often considered to be a way of thinking as well as in what way a contestant cope with a precompetition stress. In the article, a try has been given in order to verify the different styles of coping with stress by sportsmen. 103 people at 19–33 age have been examined. The experimental group consisted of 61 people related to sport career at the age of from 19 to 33 while the testing group consisted of 42 people not being connected with sport career. The analysis of the results indicates the differences in the styles of coping with stress between the students related to sport career and those who are not as well as between sportsmen who do individual and team sports.