| Abstract |
This study aims to examine the inter-correlation between sports participation and emotional coping ability among athletes and whether sports participation predicts emotional coping ability. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) developed by Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2013) was used to measure the emotional coping ability of athletes, while Sport Participation Model Questionnaire (SPMQ) developed by Aicenena (2012) was used to evaluate the athletes脙垄脗聙脗聶 sports participation. The respondents of this study were the of 1015 athletes from different Colleges and State University in Iligan City, Philippines, aged 17-19 and have played multiple sports in a local level .
Moreover, descriptive statistics was used to assess the demographic profile of the respondents, while linear regression was used to measure the relationship between sports participation and emotional coping ability.
Results show that sports participation is negatively correlated with emotional coping ability of athletes in terms of cognitive reappraisal. However, sports participation is also positively correlated with emotional coping ability in terms of expressive suppression.
Hence, if the sports participation of the athletes increases, their cognitive reappraisal will decrease. However, when the sports participation of the athletes increases, their expressive suppression will also increase. For this reason, it was found out that sports participation is a significant predictor to the emotional coping ability of athletes in terms of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. |
Mindanao State
University - Iligan Institute of Technology