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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1513277
This article is part of the Research Topic Psychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume V View all 15 articles
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RUMINATION AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE 1 Running Head: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RUMINATIVE AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE Relationship between Ruminative Dispositions and Perceived Sports Performance of Young Elite Athletes in Hong Kong: Role of Problem-Oriented Coping Strategies
Provisionally accepted- 1 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan
- 2 Faculty of Sports Science, Burapha University, Mueang, Chonburi, Thailand
There is a nuanced relationship between rumination and sports performance, which may depend on individuals predisposed to specific facets of rumination. Additionally, ruminative dispositions are intertwined with coping strategies, both playing crucial roles in sports performance. The study aimed to investigate the relationships among ruminative dispositions, coping strategies, and sports performance in athletes, considering the perspective of multidimensional rumination. The study also examined whether coping strategies are associated with the relationship between ruminative dispositions and perceived sports performance.Parallel mediation analysis was conducted on 111 young elite athletes from the Hong Kong national team to examine the relationships between ruminative dispositions, coping strategies, and sports performance. The results revealed that emotion-focused ruminative disposition (ERD) and meaning-searching ruminative disposition (MRD) was negatively associated with perceived sports performance, with problem-oriented coping (POC) playing a partial role. In contrast, instrumental ruminative disposition (IRD) was positively associated with perceived sports performance, fully via POC. These findings suggest that athletes with higher levels of ERD and MRD tend to use POC less frequently, which is associated with poor perceived sports performance. Conversely, athletes with higher levels of IRD tend to employ POC more frequently, associated with perceived sports performance. The proposed model provides the theoretical framework for multi-dimensional rumination in sport psychology and outlines the potential impact of coping strategies on athletic performance. Importantly, this research underscores that the outcome of rumination is contingent upon its focus.
Keywords: multi-dimensional rumination, Repetitive thinking, stress management, sport performance, Athletic Performance
Received: 18 Oct 2024; Accepted: 10 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Yu-Kai Chang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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