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Emotion Regulation (2020)

Ruiz, Montse C.; Robazza, Claudio (2020). Emotion Regulation. In Hackfort, Dieter; Schinke, Robert J. (Eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Volume 2: Applied and Practical Measures, International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Oxon: Routledge, 263-280. DOI: 10.4324/9781315187228-19

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Ruiz, Montse C.; Robazza, Claudio

Parent publication: The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Volume 2: Applied and Practical Measures

Parent publication editors: Hackfort, Dieter; Schinke, Robert J.

ISBN: 978-1-138-73446-3

eISBN: 978-1-315-18722-8

Journal or series: International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology

Publication year: 2020

Pages range: 263-280

Number of pages in the book: 714

Publisher: Routledge

Place of Publication: Oxon

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315187228-19

Open Access: Publication channel is not openly available

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/69079

Abstract

How do athletes feel when they perform at their best? How can they reach and maintain optimal feeling states? How do athletes feel when they perform poorly? How can they avoid or regulate their dysfunctional feelings? How can they optimize their performance? These are critical questions for athletes, coaches, and practitioners that have also attracted the attention of researchers. Indeed, athletes’ ability to regulate their emotional states is crucial for a successful performance. For decades, researchers have examined the relationships between emotions and performance (Hanin, 2000; Jones, Lane, Bray, Uphill, & Catlin, 2005; Lane et al., 2016; Ruiz, Raglin, & Hanin, 2017; Turner & Jones, 2018). Anxiety, as the most common emotion that athletes experience prior to competition, was the focus of initial research, which aimed at understanding how such emotion could influence performance (Hackfort & Schwenkmezger, 1993; Hanton, Mellalieu, & Williams, 2015; Marchant, Maher, & Wang, 2014; Turner & Jones, 2018). Beyond anxiety, however, athletes experience an array of emotions, which can be functional or dysfunctional for their performance. There is, therefore, a need for a more holistic approach to the study of a variety of unpleasant and pleasant emotions and other non-emotion components of athletes’ experiences, which form the so-called psychobiosocial states. Because of the acknowledged impact of emotions on performance, emotion regulation strategies have attracted research attention in recent years (Friesen et al., 2013; Lane, Beedie, Jones, Uphill, & Devonport, 2012). Although emotion-centred strategies are useful to improve performance, a combination of strategies focused on emotional states as well as action or task-execution patterns are deemed most effective (Bortoli, Bertollo, Hanin, & Robazza, 2012; Robazza, Bertollo, Filho, Hanin, & Bortoli, 2016).

Keywords: emotions; sports; athletes; performance (physical capacity); sport psychology

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Ministry reporting: Yes

Reporting Year: 2020

Preliminary JUFO rating: 3