Comparison of Corona anxiety and coping styles in athletes and non-athletes teachers

Subject Areas : Sport psychology

hasan alikhani ¹ , Narjes Sayari ² , Farshid Shahin Far ³ , Asieh Mirzaaghajani ⁴

1 - , Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
2 - , Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
3 - , Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
4 - , Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

Received: 2024-01-26 Accepted : 2024-03-09 Published : 2024-09-23

Keywords: Corona anxiety, Coping styles, Teachers.,

Abstract :

Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the anxiety of Corona and coping styles in sportsmen and non-sportsmen teachers. Methods: Methodology: The design of the current research was descriptive and comparative. The statistical population of the research included all the athletes and non-athletes teachers in the cities of Amalesh and Langrod in 2021, of which 270 people were selected through the available sampling method and in two groups of 135 athletes (with a training experience of 3 consecutive years and at least 3 training sessions per week) and non-athletes took place. In this research, Alipour et al.'s standard Corona anxiety questionnaires and Andler and Parker's coping styles were used, which were provided to the participants online. In the current research, the skewness and elongation of the variables were used to check the normality of the variables and the Lone test for the homogeneity of variances in order to provide the possibility of using parametric tests. And at the level of inferential statistics, multivariate analysis of variance and univariate analysis of variance were used. Also, the data of the present study were analyzed using SPSS-22 software at a significance level of 0.001. Results: The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the anxiety of corona and the coping styles of sportsmen and non-athletes. Conclusion: Therefore, performing sports activities during the corona epidemic can significantly reduce the intensity of anxiety caused by this disease in teachers and prevent the problems caused by it.

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