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Coping with losses: Need unfulfillment, coping strategies and temporal well-being of sport fans

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  • Jeeyoon Kim
  • YuKyoum Kim

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This study investigates how sport fans psychologically process and cope with the loss of one’s team and how the process is linked to temporal well-being. Grounded on need theory and Lazarus’ model of stress, need unfulfillment is introduced as a psychological threat derived from a loss, which triggers coping strategies to deal with the negative well-being effects associated with the loss. With a two-wave survey-based natural field study conducted with identified NFL team fans, the relations among need unfulfillment (of arousal, achievement and social needs), coping strategies (i.e., seeking social support, positive reinterpretation/growth, venting, denial and CORFing) and temporal well-being (i.e., self-worth and negative affect) are examined with structural equation modeling. Need unfulfillment after a loss, particularly achievement unfulfillment, was found as a meaningful antecedent of coping behavior. The five coping strategies had distinctive effects on self-worth and negative affect. Strategies to help fans effectively cope with losses are discussed.

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  • Jeeyoon Kim & YuKyoum Kim, 2023. "Coping with losses: Need unfulfillment, coping strategies and temporal well-being of sport fans," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 720-743, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:26:y:2023:i:5:p:720-743
    DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2023.2210360
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