Issues of coping with stress in sports do not lose relevance due to their high practical significance. The aim is to establish the features of stress–coping behavior in a sample of taekwondo athletes of young age during training and competitions. The study was conducted with the participation of 60 people. Methods of psychological diagnostics: «Scale of stress sources» (E.V. Raspopina), «Methodology for the study of the relationship between an athlete and a coach» (Y.L. Khanina and A.V. Stambulova), «Coping test» (R. Lazarus). It was revealed that there are significant differences in the manifestation of coping strategies, relationships with the coach and in resistance to sources of stress in the training and competitive periods.
taekwondo, coping behavior, coping strategies, sources of stress
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