Research Reports
Relationships Between Sense of Coherence(SOC)and Stress Responses for University Female Athletes
2019 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 29-34
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2019 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 29-34
The study was conducted to examine the relationships between Sense of Coherence (SOC) and stress responses for university female athletes in relation to their sports competition levels.
The subjects were 441 female university students (age: 20.5±1.1) in the Kanto, Chubu, and Kansai areas of Japan.
The survey included questions on their sports specialties and the competition levels in which they participated in world, national, prefectural, and local tournaments.
SOC-13 for measuring of SOC strength and Stress response scales for athletes (SRSA) were used.
The results indicated that SOC strength had a negative relationship to all stress response factors, regardless of competition level.
The results show that SOC strengths may contribute to the suppression of stress responses of female athletes.
