Executive Functions and Competitive Attitudes in Near-Elite Ice Hockey Players
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12965906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Borbála Tamás (0000-0002-7814-1722, Babeș-Bolyai University, corresponding author), Gergely Géczi (0000-0003-2593-1939, Hungarian School Sport Federation), Lilla Gurisatti (0000-0002-8653-5115, Hungarian School Sport Federation), Laura Gábor (0009-0002-3867-6105, Babeș-Bolyai University), Zoltán Baracskai (0000-0002-1526-2041, Hungarian School Sport Federation), Gábor Géczi (0000-0002-6996-1550, Hungarian School Sport Federation) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-24 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1899-4849 • E-ISSN: 2081-2221 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/pcssr-2024-0015 |
| OpenAlex | W4392895453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 47 |
Ice hockey is considered one of the most competitive sports, and it requires physical and mental preparation to perform appropriately under the pressure of a competitive environment. The present study aims to investigate the impact of competitive sports on executive functions such as emotion regulation, inhibitory control, working memory, and competitive attitudes among near-elite ice hockey players. Near-elite athletes have been gathered (N = 67) from the four Hungarian Ice-Hockey Academies. Our results indicated a small positive association between Canadian points and maladaptive emotion regulation and a slight positive correlation between maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation and false alarms of the N-back task. The result revealed a significant difference between National and Non-National Team members in maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation regarding hypercompetitive attitude. The result of linear regression revealed that maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation significantly predicts false alarms, indicating that the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation explains 10% of the variance. In conclusion, we highlight the role of the environment, which affects executive functions and competitive attitudes alongside sports performance. Although the findings were mainly correlational, we can conclude that the nature of competitive ice hockey expects certain behavior for the players indifferent of the situation that could lead to emotion suppression, rumi-nation and other maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. We can also conclude that inadequate emotion regulation might be related to the overstimulation of players, characterized by a hypersensitive state to stimuli. We suggest that practitioners ensure the development of adequate competitive attitudes of players to enable long-term physical and psychological benefits
Athletes · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive reappraisal · Elite · Elite Athletes · Emotional control · Executive functions · Expressive Suppression · Ice hockey · Physical medicine and rehabilitation · Political science · Variance (accounting · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Medicine · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance
Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems
The concurrent validity of the N -back task as a working memory measure
G*Power 3
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1
Self-Perception Theory
Dual-Processing Accounts of Reasoning, Judgment, and Social Cognition
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being
Social origins of executive function development
How normative and social identification processes predict self‐determination to engage in derogatory behaviours against outgroup hockey fans
Age-related differences in emotion regulation strategies
Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |