Table of Contents

Introduction; Coping Conceptualized & Unraveled; Coping Across Time, Situations, & Contexts: A Conceptual & Methodological Overview of its Stability, Consistency, & Change; Traditional & New Methods of Assessing Coping in Sport; Coping: Research Designs & Analysis Issues; Gender & Coping in Sport: Do Male & Female Athletes Cope Differently?; Athletes' Coping Across the Lifespan; Cultural Differences in Coping with Stress in Sport: Theory & Practice; Personality & Coping in Sport: The Big Five & Mental Toughness; Coping with Anxiety in Sport; Coping & Self-Determination in Sport: Underlying Mechanisms & Empirical Evidence; Achievement Goals & Coping in Sport; Coping, Self Concept, & Self-esteem; Choking Under Pressure as Self-Destructive Behavior; Effective versus Ineffective Coping in Sport; Coping Self-efficay in Sport; Future-Oriented Approaches to Coping; Index.