Psychological Coping with Impact Response of Sports Materials

摘要

To develop an innovative strategy for psychological coping with impact response of sports materials improved in competitive sport settings. Sports utensils exposed to impact loading frequently involves polymeric materials. The impact response tends to depend on large stress-strain hysteresis on polymeric materials. The samples were gained from balls of varying coefficient of restitution and stiffness. Total psychological coping would be with regard to the self-selected stressor in psychology. In particular, higher levels of psychological coping were associated with more problem-focused coping, but less emotion-focused and avoidance coping.