Psychological coping skills as predictors of collegiate golf performance: Social desirability as a suppressor variable.

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald S. Christensen ◽  
Ronald E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Psychological Coping ◽  
Suppressor Variable

The Relationship Between the Perceived Motivational Climate in Elite Collegiate Sport and Athlete Psychological Coping Skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Mary D. Fry ◽  
Candace M. Hogue ◽  
Susumu Iwasaki ◽  
Gloria B. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Collegiate Sport ◽  
Perceived Motivational Climate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Psychological Coping

Psychological coping skills in sport are believed to be central to athlete performance and well-being. This study examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate in elite collegiate sport teams and player psychological coping skills use. Division I athletes (N = 467) completed a questionnaire examining their perceptions of how caring, task-, and ego-involving their teams were and their use of sport specific psychological coping skills (i.e., coping with adversity, peaking under pressure, goal setting/mental preparation, concentration, freedom from worry, confidence/achievement motivation, and coachability). Structural equation modeling revealed positive relationships between perceptions of a task-involving climate and confidence/achievement motivation (β = 0.42) and goal setting/mental preparation (β = 0.27). Caring climate perceptions were positively associated with coachability (β = 0.34). These findings illustrate how encouraging athletes and coaches to create a caring, task-involving climate may facilitate athletes’ use of psychological coping skills and set athletes up to perform their best and have a positive sporting experience.

scholarly journals Can Social Desirability Be Detected Statistically at the Macro-Sociological Level?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
◽  
Duane W. Crawford ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Same Sex Parents ◽  
Suppressor Variable

While a few have argued that social science has been subject to progressive biases, others have discounted such ideas. However, no one has yet performed empirical tests over a large range of studies for such possible bias, which we label macro-level social desirability (MLSD). Combining the results from fifty-nine empirical studies that assessed rates of nonheterosexuality among children of same-sex parents, we found that the higher the maximum rates reported, the less likely those reports were to have been cited in Google Scholar by counts or by annual rate, which may reflect MLSD. However, after several statistical controls, the association for counts became non-significant, while the association for rates became stronger, although the effect sizes were in a moderate (d = .28 or higher) to large range (d, up to .68) by either analysis. Generally, research quality acted as a suppressor variable for MLSD but was significantly related to both counts and rates of citations, indicating that higher quality articles were more likely to have been cited, even controlling for the number of years since first publication. Higher quality articles were slightly more likely to report higher rates of nonheterosexuality among children of same-sex parents. We discuss implications of our findings and suggest future directions of research.

scholarly journals The application of k-Nearest Neighbour in the identification of high potential archers based on relative psychological coping skills variables

2018 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 012019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahari Taha ◽  
Rabiu Muazu Musa ◽  
Anwar P P Abdul Majeed ◽  
Mohamad Razali Abdullah ◽  
Muhammad Muaz Alim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Skills ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Nearest Neighbour ◽  
Psychological Coping

scholarly journals Social desirability and consensual validity of personality traits

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 549-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenn Konstabel ◽  
Toivo Aavik ◽  
Jüri Allik
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Person Description ◽  
Desirability Index ◽  
Peer Reports ◽  
Suppressor Variable ◽  
Better Than

The effect of socially desirable responding (SDR) on the consensual validity of personality traits was studied. SDR was operationalized as the sum of items weighted by their respective social desirability values (Social Desirability Index, SDI), which could be computed for both self‐ and peer‐reports. In addition, the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) was used as a measure of SDR. It was shown that both self‐peer and peer‐peer agreement rose significantly for most studied traits when SDI was controlled in both self‐ and peer‐reports. BIDR was a significant suppressor variable in only one of the analyses involving Neuroticism. The SDI detected faking on personality scales somewhat better than the BIDR scales. It is argued that the SDI is a measure of evaluativeness of a person description, and that people agree more on descriptive than on evaluative aspects of a target's personality traits. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Exploring Coping Strategies of Different Generations of Students Starting University

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Takács ◽  
Szabolcs Takács ◽  
Judit T Kárász ◽  
Zoltán Horváth ◽  
Attila Oláh
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Immune Capacity ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Psychological Coping

Introduction: Coping strategies and adaptation skills are key features in successfully adjusting to university challenges. Coping skills are an essential part of the Psychological immune system, which leads to successful adaptation. Due to COVID-19 most universities have changed their face-to-face teaching for online education. Nevertheless, there is little concrete empirical evidence on how this generation of students with the ongoing impacts of disruptive changes can cope with it. Colleges and universities need to make changes in order to retain this new generation of students. Our aim was to explore the characteristics and changes in coping skills of university students from three different age groups.Method: Psychological coping skills were measured by the Psychological Immune Competence Inventory (PICI). Differences were detected between generations. Group comparisons (pre-2004, pre-Covid, and post-Covid) groups were compared) using PICI subscales using independent sample analysis of variance. The sample consisted of 4,731 university students, 2,768 (58.5%) were men and 1,730 (36.56%) were women.Results: Students from 2004 showed significantly higher scores in the Self-regulation subsystem scale compared to students in the pre-Covid and post-Covid groups. Self-regulation subsystem: F(2, 2,569.607) = 444.375, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.27: small effect, ω2 = 0.27; Resilience: F(2, 2,372.117) = 1171.855, p < 0.001, η2 = 0.14: small effect, ω2 = 0.14. Based on the results, the explained variance ratio was at least 10% based on self-regulation and resilience.Conclusions: Psychological immune capacity of students seems to decrease through the years. Nonetheless, interventions may have a further facilitating role in the maintenance and development of psychological immunity during college years.

Social desirability scales as moderator and suppressor variables

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Borkenau ◽  
Fritz Ostendorf
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Regression Technique ◽  
Moderator Effects ◽  
Partial Correlations ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Suppressor Variable ◽  
Descriptive Level

This study concerned the effectiveness of social desirability (SD) as a moderator or suppressor variable. Three SD scales were employed: the Edwards SDS, the Marlowe‐Crowne SDS, and a new scale that uses sets of four trait‐descriptive terms such that highly desirable responses are inconsistent at the descriptive level (e.g. firm, lenient, severe, and lax). Moreover, factor‐analytically derived measures of self‐deception and impression management were used. The 300 subjects were administered measures of the five major factors of personality. They were also judged by three peers on these dimensions. To examine moderator effects, the sample of 300 subjects was dichotomized at the median of the SD measures, and self‐peer correlations were calculated for each group separately. Saunders s moderated regression technique was also used. Partial correlations controlling for SD were computed to test for suppressor effects. Moderator effects were present only for Neuroticism, whereas no suppressor effects were found for any of the SD measures. It is argued that researchers and subjects may hold different perspectives on the meaning of responses to SD scales.

scholarly journals The identification of high potential archers based on relative psychological coping skills variables: A Support Vector Machine approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
pp. 012027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahari Taha ◽  
Rabiu Muazu Musa ◽  
A P P Abdul Majeed ◽  
Mohamad Razali Abdullah ◽  
Muhammad Aizzat Zakaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Psychological Coping

Exploring relationships between the coach-initiated motivational climate and psychological coping skills over the high school American football season

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 790-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori A Gano-Overway ◽  
Enza Steele ◽  
B Ann Boyce ◽  
Diane Whaley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
American Football ◽  
Repeated Measure ◽  
Coping Skill ◽  
High School Football ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Competitive Season ◽  
Psychological Coping

This study investigated the relationship between the perceived coach-initiated motivational climate and psychological coping skills over a competitive high school football season as well as changes in perceptions of the climate over the season. Near the beginning (Time 1) and end of the season (Time 2), 101 players from five competitive high school American football programs completed the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2 and the Athletic Coping Skill Inventory-28. A hierarchical linear regression revealed that Time 2 task-involving climate predicted Time 2 psychological coping skills when controlling for Time 1 psychological coping skills. Repeated measure multivariate analysis of variance results demonstrated that players perceived a decrease in the task-involving climate and an increase in the ego-involving climate over the course of the competitive season. These results add to the research on the positive role of a task-involving climate in the sport domain. Additionally, this research provides insight into how perceptions of the coach-initiated motivational climate can shift over the course of the competitive season.

An Exploratory Study of Personality Traits and Psychological Coping Skills on Archery Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Rabiu Muazu Musa ◽  
Mohamad Razali Abdullah ◽  
Hafizan Juahir ◽  
Vijayamurugan Eswaramoorthi ◽  
Norzulaika Alias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Psychological Coping
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