Readings

Required Digital Textbook Reading: Chapter 4 – Stress, Emotion, and Coping in Sport and Exercise

Required eBook Reading: Chapters 2, 9, 16, 26, 29, 33, and 36.

Online content

Thematic Discussions

Note: In this unit, there are five potential discussion themes available for your consideration. You should select three different discussion themes and submit one initial post that begins a discussion thread and two responses to your group members’ posts in the appropriate discussions area. If you are the first person to submit a post, do not forget to indicate the title of the theme (e.g. Coping with Stress Discussion). Moreover, do not worry to be the initiator of a discussion; other students who are interested in the theme(s) will join you soon to keep the discussions running.

1. Coping with Stress Discussion: How have you coped with anger in competitive and/or non-competitive situations? Describe these situations and your stress reactions. How did your emotion of anger and its functions match up with the theory and evidence on emotions described in the text and eBook?
2. Burnout Discussion: What is burnout? Discuss examples of burnout that you or your colleagues may have experienced either in sports or outside sports. What were the consequences of burnout?
3. Coping with Pressure Discussion: What pre-competition, competition and/or post-competition pressures have you experienced either as an athlete or as a student which caused you to have physiological, affective, cognitive, and behavioral breakdowns? What did you do or what should you have done in an attempt to cope. Were any superstitious behaviours associated with your attempts to cope?
4. Gender and Stress Discussion: Some male athletes, especially at the high school and college levels, feel that they experience more stress but are more capable in handling this stress than female athletes. Are these simply stereotypical views? …Discuss the implications of such beliefs.
5. Stress and Coping Intervention Discussion: What are your evaluations of SIT, SMT, meditation and biofeedback as stress and coping interventions?