Processo de validação do questionário “Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28)” para a língua portuguesa do Brasil

Abstract

In sport, athletes are submited to various stressors, both physical (exercise, injuries), psychological (concern with performance, anxiety) and social (relationship with coach and teammates). The skills to deal with these phenomena are called coping. It is a conscious process, in which the individual evaluates the situation as stressful, trying to use my personal resources to control, reduce, or deal with demands of the activity. The Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28) is multidimensional instrument used to assess different strategies to deal with stress in sport. The systematic review found 23 studies that used the instrument. Found a correlation between the dimensions of the ACSI-28 and successful athlete, a lower incidence of injuries and other psychological skills, etc. In Brazil there are few studies approaching the development of instruments that assess the psychological skills, especially when it comes to coping. The aim of this study was to validity a Brazilian version of the ACSI28. Factor analysis supported the structural validity of ACSI-25BR, removing three items from the original version. Five of the seven subscales showed adequate internal consistency. Through the MANOVA there were differences between gender, modality and performance level. According to the results, we conclude that the psychological skills need to be trained as much as the technical, tactical and physical, respecting differences and needs of men and women in different sports and competitive levels.