Examining the relationship between hardiness and perceived stress-related growth in a sport injury context |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK;2. School of Sport, Health and Applied Science, St. Mary''s University, UK;1. School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia;2. School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia;3. Discipline of Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, Australia;4. Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland, Australia;1. Laurentian University, Canada;2. Loughborough University, UK;1. Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain;2. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain;3. Universidad de A Coruña, Spain;1. Chinese Culture University, Taiwan;2. National Taiwan Sport University, Taiwan;3. University of Taipei, Taiwan;4. National Chia-Yi University, Taiwan;5. National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan;6. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the relationship between hardiness, coping and perceived stress-related growth (SRG) in a sport injury context. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, a cross-sectional design was employed, whereby 206 previously injured athletes (148 male, 58 female, Mage = 22.23 years) who had recently returned to sport completed three questionnaires: Dispositional Resilience Scale, Stress-Related Growth Scale, and Brief COPE. Pearson product–moment correlations and Preacher's and Hayes's (2008) bootstrapping procedure were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed a significant positive relationship between hardiness and perceived SRG. Two coping strategies were found to mediate this relationship: emotional support and positive reframing. This would suggest that those higher in hardiness may have fostered SRG by mobilising their social support for emotional reasons (e.g., moral support, sympathy or understanding) and having the ability to construe their injury in positive terms; however, more rigorous methodologies are needed to confirm or refute these observations. These findings support some of the central tenets of Joseph and Linley's (2005) organismic valuing theory and provide implications for professional practice. Future researchers should embrace qualitative inquiry to enhance the interpretability and meaningfulness of these findings (e.g., interpretative phenomenological analysis, narrative analysis), and use prospective, longitudinal pre-to-post sport injury designs to further substantiate them. |
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| Keywords: | Positive reframing Emotional support Personality Recovery outcomes Stress-related growth |
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