All Outputs (3)

Examining the relationships between challenge and threat cognitive appraisals and coaching behaviours in football coaches (2016)
Journal Article
Dixon, M., Turner, M., & Gillman, J. (2016). Examining the relationships between challenge and threat cognitive appraisals and coaching behaviours in football coaches. Journal of Sports Sciences, 35(24), 2466-2452. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2016.1273538

Previous research demonstrates that sports coaching is a stressful activity. This article investigates coaches’ challenge and threat cognitive appraisals of stressful situations and their impact on coaching behaviour, using Blascovich and Mendes’ (20... Read More about Examining the relationships between challenge and threat cognitive appraisals and coaching behaviours in football coaches.

Natural environments and chronic stress measured by hair cortisol (2016)
Journal Article
Gidlow, C., Randall, J., Gillman, J., Smith, G., & Jones, M. (2016). Natural environments and chronic stress measured by hair cortisol. Landscape and Urban Planning, 148, 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.12.009

Neighbourhood green space is positively associated with health. Stress reducing effects of nature might underpin this relationship, but researchers have often used objective stress measures to characterise acute responses to natural environments, or... Read More about Natural environments and chronic stress measured by hair cortisol.

Hair cortisol and self-reported stress in healthy, working adults (2016)
Journal Article
Gidlow, C., Randall, J., Gillman, J., Silk, S., & Jones, M. (2016). Hair cortisol and self-reported stress in healthy, working adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.09.022

Chronic stress can be important in the pathology of chronic disease. Hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) are proposed to reflect long term cortisol secretion from exposure to stress. To date, inconsistencies in the relationship between HCC and self-re... Read More about Hair cortisol and self-reported stress in healthy, working adults.