Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling

IF 3.3 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102876

Steven Vaughan , Hayley E. McEwan , Angela Beggan , Amy E. Whitehead

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Abstract

Objective

The purpose of this study was to use narrative inquiry to explore professional women cyclist's stories of stress and coping from their race experiences.

Method

Semi-structured interviews with 6 professional cyclists provided powerful accounts of their racing experiences. Pragmatist narrative inquiry emphasises the key characteristics of these experiences, which coupled with a reflexive creative analytic practice led to individualised first-person stories being constructed which were combined into an ethnodrama to tell the stories of a fictional women's bicycle race.

Results

Tension Lines: The Invisible Weight of the Ride is an ethnodrama portraying riders' situated racing experiences. It shows how appraisal moves beyond a focus on cognition and isolated experiences of stress and coping by providing insights into relationships between the different contexts that interplay within professional women's cycling.

Conclusion

This study provides novel insight into the stress and coping experience through the application of narrative inquiry and pragmatism. It details situated, nuanced interpretations, of stressors experienced by professional women cyclists to show the complex process of coping whilst racing. As non-participant elite women cyclists suggested that they found the ethnodrama to authentically represent their experiences, the findings could serve to emotionally connect and generate awareness with athlete support personnel of the complex relationships between stressors and coping.

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来自车队的故事：压力和应对职业女子公路自行车

目的运用叙事探究的方法，从职业女性自行车运动员的比赛经历出发，探讨她们的压力与应对故事。方法对6名专业自行车手进行半结构化访谈，提供他们的赛车经历。实用主义的叙事探究强调了这些经历的关键特征，再加上反身性的创造性分析实践，导致了个性化的第一人称故事的构建，这些故事被结合成一部民族戏剧，讲述了一个虚构的女子自行车比赛的故事。张力线：《骑的无形重量》是一部民族剧，描述骑手的赛车经历。它通过提供对职业女子自行车运动中相互作用的不同背景之间关系的见解，展示了评估如何超越对认知和孤立的压力和应对经验的关注。结论本研究通过运用叙事探究和实用主义对压力和应对经验提供了新的见解。它详细介绍了职业女性自行车手所经历的压力源的位置，细致入微的解释，以显示赛车时应对的复杂过程。未参与的优秀女子自行车运动员表示，她们发现民族戏剧真实地反映了她们的经历，这一发现可以在情感上与运动员支持人员建立联系，并使他们意识到压力源与应对之间的复杂关系。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

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