TY  - JOUR
AU  - Leis, Oliver
AU  - Lautenbach, Franziska 
AU  - Birch, Phil DJ
AU  - Elbe, Anne-Marie
PY  - 2022/03/07
Y2  - 2024/04/18
TI  - Stressors, associated responses, and coping strategies in professional esports players: A qualitative study
JF  - International Journal of Esports
JA  - IJE
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SE  - Original Research Article
DO  - 
UR  - https://www.ijesports.org/article/76/html
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AB  - <p class="Abstract" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0cm .0001pt 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">To inform future intervention strategies and enhance professional esports players’ performance, this qualitative study investigated stressors, associated stress responses, and coping strategies experienced by professional League of Legends players. Following criterion-based sampling, semi-structured interviews with 12 professional esports players were performed. The findings illustrate a variety of stressors related to team, performance, audience, and social media. Associated stress responses prior to competition (e.g., nervousness and excitement) seemed to be suppressed during competition, whereas post-competition responses were related to the outcome of competition. Although a range of strategies were identified, players most frequently communicated with teammates or coaches and focused on performance when coping with stressors. Study results show a need to teach players how to recognize and regulate associated stress responses, and to gain an in-depth understanding of stressors, coping strategies, and their effects on performance. </span></p>
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