Stress and Coping Experiences of UK Professional Football Managers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sofie Kent; Rachel Arnold; Tracey Devonport; Faye Didymus

doi:10.1123/TSP.2022-0100

Stress and Coping Experiences of UK Professional Football Managers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sofie Kent, Rachel Arnold, Tracey Devonport, Faye Didymus

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Guided by transactional stress theory, this study aimed to explore elite U.K. soccer coaches’ perceived stressors, the situational properties, appraisals, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study also aimed to explore any variation in stress experiences across football league standards A total of 13 professional first-team male U.K. association football coaches between 38 and 59 years of age (M = 43.00, SD = 6.94) participated in telephone (n = 5) or online (n = 8) semistructured interviews. Informed by the philosophical position of critical realism, Braun et al.’s six-phase approach to thematic analysis was used to generate competitive, organizational, and personal stressor themes. Deductive thematic analysis generated themes reflective of all situational properties of stressors identified by Lazarus and Folkman and an array of appraisal and coping strategies. Future research and recommendations for supporting coach performance and well-being post-COVID-19 pandemic are offered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	26-39
Journal	The Sport Psychologist
Volume	37
Issue number	1
Early online date	31 Jan 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1123/TSP.2022-0100
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2023

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