Taking Action or Thinking About It? State Orientation and Rumination Are Correlated in Athletes

Publication type:
Journal article
Metadata:
Autoren
Autoren-URL
https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000462617500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
Externe Identifier
  • Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: HQ7QZ
  • PubMed Identifier: 30971970
ISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Schlüsselwörter
  • rumination
  • action control theory
  • state orientation
  • action orientation
  • failure-related behavioral adaptation
  • competitive sports
  • competition-related rumination
  • competitive athletes
Artikelnummer
ARTN 576
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2019
Status
Published
Titel
Taking Action or Thinking About It? State Orientation and Rumination Are Correlated in Athletes
Sub types
  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
10

Data source: Web of Science (Lite)

Other metadata sources:
Autoren
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
eISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in Psychology
Online publication date
2019
Status
Published online
Herausgeber
Frontiers Media SA
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
Datum der Datenerfassung
2019
Titel
Taking Action or Thinking About It? State Orientation and Rumination Are Correlated in Athletes
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
10

Data source: Crossref

Abstract
Athletic performance in competitive sports relies heavily on the ability to cope effectively with stressful situations. In contrast, some athletes report that their thoughts revolve around the future or past and not around the actual demands during competitions. In those specific stressful situations, the lack of focus like an unintended fixation on repetitive cognitions can have fatal consequences with regard to the performance. Especially when competitors are close in their athletic capabilities, differences in effectively coping with stress and mental stability may decide about winning and losing. One established factor of performing effectively under pressure is the individual tendency to either focus on taking action (i.e., action orientation) or on focusing on the own emotions (i.e., state orientation). It is widely acknowledged that state-oriented athletes have disadvantages in performing under stress. Moreover, the action control theory claims that state orientation is related to ruminative cognitions, which itself is assumed to impair performance in the long term. We tested this hypothesis in 157 competitive athletes from different sports (including individual and team sports). Regression analysis demonstrates a substantial correlation of failure-related action orientation (i.e., state orientation) with different measures of rumination (including general, clinically relevant, and competition-related rumination). In addition, general (i.e., content independent) rumination also correlated substantially with a rumination scale adapted specifically to sports-related competition. These results suggest (1) that a sports and competition-related ruminative mechanism exists and (2) that ruminative cognitions are related to the cognitive basis of state orientation. While our study does not allow for a causal interpretation, it provides an additional approach to investigate mental factors underlying inter-individual differences in athletic performance under stress and pressure.
Addresses
  • Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute for Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Autoren
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
eISSN
1664-1078
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Identifier: 30971970
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC6443985
Open access
true
ISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in psychology
Sprache
eng
Medium
Electronic-eCollection
Online publication date
2019
Open access status
Open Access
Paginierung
576
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2019
Status
Published
Publisher licence
CC BY
Datum der Datenerfassung
2019
Titel
Taking Action or Thinking About It? State Orientation and Rumination Are Correlated in Athletes.
Sub types
  • research-article
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
10

Files

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576/pdf https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6443985?pdf=render

Data source: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract
Athletic performance in competitive sports relies heavily on the ability to cope effectively with stressful situations. In contrast, some athletes report that their thoughts revolve around the future or past and not around the actual demands during competitions. In those specific stressful situations, the lack of focus like an unintended fixation on repetitive cognitions can have fatal consequences with regard to the performance. Especially when competitors are close in their athletic capabilities, differences in effectively coping with stress and mental stability may decide about winning and losing. One established factor of performing effectively under pressure is the individual tendency to either focus on taking action (i.e., action orientation) or on focusing on the own emotions (i.e., state orientation). It is widely acknowledged that state-oriented athletes have disadvantages in performing under stress. Moreover, the action control theory claims that state orientation is related to ruminative cognitions, which itself is assumed to impair performance in the long term. We tested this hypothesis in 157 competitive athletes from different sports (including individual and team sports). Regression analysis demonstrates a substantial correlation of failure-related action orientation (i.e., state orientation) with different measures of rumination (including general, clinically relevant, and competition-related rumination). In addition, general (i.e., content independent) rumination also correlated substantially with a rumination scale adapted specifically to sports-related competition. These results suggest (1) that a sports and competition-related ruminative mechanism exists and (2) that ruminative cognitions are related to the cognitive basis of state orientation. While our study does not allow for a causal interpretation, it provides an additional approach to investigate mental factors underlying inter-individual differences in athletic performance under stress and pressure.
Date of acceptance
2019
Autoren
Autoren-URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30971970
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC6443985
ISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Front Psychol
Schlüsselwörter
  • action control theory
  • action orientation
  • competition-related rumination
  • competitive athletes
  • competitive sports
  • failure-related behavioral adaptation
  • rumination
  • state orientation
Sprache
eng
Country
Switzerland
Paginierung
576
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2019
Status
Published online
Titel
Taking Action or Thinking About It? State Orientation and Rumination Are Correlated in Athletes.
Sub types
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
10

Data source: PubMed

Author's licence
CC-BY
Autoren
Hosting institution
Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
Sammlungen
  • JGU-Publikationen
Resource version
Published version
URN
urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-590401
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
Funding acknowledgements
  • DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin
File(s) embargoed
false
Open access
true
ISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in psychology
Schlüsselwörter
  • 150 Psychologie
  • 150 Psychology
Sprache
eng
Open access status
Open Access
Paginierung
Art. 576
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2019
Public URL
https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/775
Herausgeber
Frontiers Research Foundation
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00576
Datum der Datenerfassung
2019
Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
2019
Zugang
Public
Titel
Taking action or thinking about it? : State orientation and rumination are correlated in athletes
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
10

Files

59040.pdf

Data source: OPENSCIENCE.UB

Beziehungen:
Property of

Tools