title: Running away from stress: How regulatory modes prospectively affect athletes' stress through passion.
abstract: A prospective field study conducted with runners training for an upcoming marathon (Marathon of Rome 2013) examined the relation between regulatory modes, locomotion and assessment, and stress. Integrating regulatory mode theory and the dualistic model of passion, we hypothesized that the relation between regulatory modes (evaluated 3 months before the race) and the experience of stress approaching the marathon, is mediated by the type of passion (harmonious vs obsessive) athletes experience with regard to marathoning. Results revealed that (a) locomotion positively predicted harmonious passion, which in turn reduced athletes' experience of stress; and (b) assessment positively predicted obsessive passion, which in turn enhanced athletes' experience of stress. Overall, the present results suggest that proximal psychological mechanisms such as basic regulatory mode orientations can predict distal outcomes such as stress indirectly through their relation with motivational phenomena such as passion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes - Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lucidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes - Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pica
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes - Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.|Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mallia
authors.affiliation: President of the Rome Marathon, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Castrucci
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes - Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manganelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bélanger
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes - Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pierro
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D054874:Athletic Performance / Q000523:psychology; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012420:Running / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Regulatory mode; marathon; passion; stress