Determining the effect of perceived stress and loneliness on death anxiety with the mediating role of psychological hardiness in athletes with COVID 19.
Paper ID : 1600-SSRC-13TH
Authors
morteza Motahari *1, ali mohammad safania2, mahdiye Motahari3, masood imanzadeh4
1دانشجوی دکتری مدیریت ورزشی
2گروه مدیریت ورزشی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم تحقیقات، تهران، ایران
3دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد بازاریابی ورزشی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اردبیل، ایران
4گروه مدیریت ورزشی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد اردبیل، ایران
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of perceived stress and loneliness on death anxiety with the mediating role of psychological hardiness in athletes with COVID 19. This research was a quantitative causal research with the approach of path analysis. The research is a descriptive survey based on strategy and applied in terms of purpose. The data format is numbers and research tools is standard questionnaires. The statistical population of the study consisted of all professional athletes with COVID 19 who have gone through the disease process and improved. Since there are 5 variables in this study, the sample size was estimated to be a maximum of 200 people. Data analysis of this research at both descriptive and inferential levels was done by using path analysis method and SPSS software version 25 Amos version 24. Findings showed that perceived stress on death anxiety (Sig = 0.001, t = 4.003, β = 0.248), loneliness on death anxiety in athletes (Sig = 0.011, t = 2.537), Β = 0.178), psychological hardiness on death anxiety (Sig = 0.004, t = 2.908, β = -0.205), perceived stress on psychological hardiness (Sig = 0.004, 2.908 - = t, β = -0.205), the feeling of loneliness on the psychological hardiness of athletes with COVID 19 (Sig = 0.001, t = -7997, β = -0.478) has a significant effect. The results also showed that perceived stress through the mediating variable of psychological hardiness has a significant positive effect on death anxiety in patients with COVID 19. Feeling loneliness also has a significant positive role on the death anxiety of athletes with COVID 19 through the mediating variable of psychological hardiness. psychological hardiness can help people with COVID 19 cope with loneliness and death anxiety, and such a trait can play a mediating role in the causal relationship between these two variables in athletes. Also, psychological hardiness, by meditating the relationship between perceived stress and death anxiety in athletes with COVID 19, can moderate the relationship between these two variables and reduce their rate in patients.
Keywords
Perceived stress, Loneliness, Death anxiety, Psychological hardiness
Status: Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation)