Explanatory style and coping with controllable events by student-athletes |
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| Authors: | Robert M. Sellers Christopher Peterson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology , University of Virginia , USA;2. Department of Psychology , Universiry of Michigan , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The present study investigated the relationship between explanatory style and the appraisal and coping of 66 major college football players with respect to stressful but controllable events in the academic and the athletic domains. A path analysis showed that for controllable events, a “pessimistic” explanatory style-in which bad events are attributed to internal, stable, and global causes-predicted appraisals of adequate resources to cope with demands, which in turn predicted increased attempts to cope. |
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