Athletes' Coping Efficacy Measurement And Its Relationship With Coping Strategies

The main purposes of this research was to develop an instrument for the mesurement of athletes' coping efficacy.First,on the base of literature reviews and interviews,we developed an original scale with 48 items,which consist of 3 dimensions:Means-end Belief,Control Belief and Agent Belief.Totally 623 were selected and tested 412 males and 211 females.After two times modification and validation,a 16-item scale was developed with previous 3 dimensions.The scale was good in internal consistence,test-retest reliability,content validity,construct validity and concurrent validity.Results showed that gender differences were significant in all three dimensions,significant skill level differences were only found between means-end belief and agent belief.No athletic sort differences were found in all three dimensions.Different degrees of positive correlations between coping methods and coping efficacy existed.Significant correlation were revealed between problem-focus coping and emotion-focus coping within all three dimensions of coping effecacy.Significant correlations between control belief with four coping methods were found was also prominent. Significant correlation was also found between means-end belief and avoid and transcend coping.Low correlation existed between agent belief and avoid and transcend coping.According to this results of the research,the inventory of athlete coping efficacy is of high validity and efficiency,and could be uesed in the future research work.