Stress Management

Question 1

Define stress

Answer 1

An individuals response to a threat

Question 2

What is a stressor?

Answer 2

What cause stress

Question 3

What are somatic responses?

Answer 3

Physiological!!
- Increase in HR
- Adrenaline rush
- Sweating
- Muscle tension

Question 4

What are cognitive responses?

Answer 4

Psychological!!
- Anxiety
- Negative thoughts
- Poor decision-making
- Attentional narrowing (less focused on critical info)

Question 5

Give 4 examples of stressors in sport

Answer 5

• Importance of an event
• Officials/decisions
• Crowd (evaluation apprehension)
• Fear of failure

Question 6

What is distress

Answer 6

Bad response to stress:
- Performance is inhibited

Question 7

What is eustress

Answer 7

Good response to stress:
- Performer is confident that they can overcome the task at hand

Question 8

Apply stressors and response to sport

Answer 8

A runner at the start of a 100m race may experience the stressor of lining up against other top-class athletes in a major race.
A positive response would be that the runner believes they are training well and that they will relish the challenge of testing themselves against the other runners.
A negative response would be that the athlete begins to think they do not have the ability to compete against these athletes and is afraid of letting the coach down.