This study used the Scheme of Change for Sport Psychology Practice (SCSPP; Samuel & Tenenbaum, 2011a) to examine athletes' and coaches' personal characteristics, perceptions of, coping with, and perceived outcome of the London 2012 Olympic Games (OGs).
His model was based on the premise that stress and difficulties, being integral elements of human existence, cause every individual to develop characteristic ways of coping with them.
The ability to focus attention might relate to the capacity to cope by planning and problem solving in times of stress, both types of coping styles characteristic of resilient individuals (Southwick et al. 2005).
Passive coping emphasises the characteristics of negative coping, such as 'escaping troubles by drinking and smoking' [ 26].
Following this rationale, we expect teaching characteristics that assumedly enhance students' appraisals of coping potential, inherent pleasure and instrumental utility to be generally beneficial to students' enjoyment of lessons (Bieg et al. 2013; section on "Mechanisms and mediators…").
This process is influenced by both individual characteristics (e.g. personality and ways of coping) and organizational factors (e.g. specialist status).
The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment.
Future investigations should include measures of discrimination attributed to multiple characteristics, whether psychosocial factors are intermediate factors in this association, and the moderating effects of coping resources.
Although one should be cautious comparing the MAC and mini-MAC, these results may suggest that fatalistic coping consists of both positive and negative characteristics and may not be a particularly good coping strategy for forcing into factors based on a-priori definitions of coping effectiveness.
