There is a trend in soccer to ensure comprehensive player preparation including fitness, technical and tactical, as well as mental aspects. It has been emphasized many times that personality traits (neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion) are significant for the effectiveness of performance in soccer. The question of why these relations occur has been considered relatively rarely. Therefore, the aim of this study is an attempt to explain these relations through introduction of ways of coping with stress as their significant mediators. It is hence assumed that players with certain personality traits are characterized by specific ways of coping with stress which are related to the effectiveness of their performance. The study group consisted of 122 players, aged 16–19 years. The participants of the study were youth teams at the championship level (medalists of the youth Polish Championships), and the following research tools were used: NEO-FFI Personality Inventory, The Coping Inventory for Competitive Sport (CICS) and Szwarc’s Observation Sheet for effectiveness in soccer. It was demonstrated that task-focused ways of coping with stress (effort expenditure, thought control, and logical analysis) were the most frequent mediators of relations between the studied traits and the effectiveness of performance of soccer players.

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应对压力在足球运动员个性与绩效关系中的中介作用

足球的趋势是确保全面的球员准备，包括体能、技术和战术以及心理方面。人们多次强调，人格特质（神经质、尽责性、外向性）对足球表现的有效性很重要。为什么会出现这些关系的问题很少被考虑。因此，本研究的目的是试图通过介绍应对压力的方法作为它们的重要中介来解释这些关系。因此假设具有某些个性特征的球员具有应对压力的特定方式，这些方式与他们的表现的有效性有关。研究组由 122 名年龄在 16-19 岁之间的球员组成。该研究的参与者是锦标赛级别的青年队（波兰青年锦标赛的奖牌获得者），并使用了以下研究工具：NEO-FFI 人格量表、竞技体育应对量表 (CICS) 和 Szwarc 的有效性观察表在足球。结果表明，以任务为中心的应对压力的方式（努力支出、思想控制和逻辑分析）是所研究的特征与足球运动员表现有效性之间关系的最常见中介因素。