ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
The Role of Experience, Perceived Match Importance, and Anxiety on Cortisol Response in an Official Esports Competition.
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- Association Between Esports Participation and Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Beyond Performance: Cognitive Overload and Related Cognitive, Psychophysiological, and Performance States in Competitive Esports-A Scoping Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mapping HRV in sports science: from monitoring to machine learning.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- Applying a synergistic mindsets intervention to an esports context.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- An Exploratory Study on the Conceptualization of Burnout among the Professional Esports Athletes: Focused on League of Legends Champions Korea League.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Playing for keeps or just playing with emotion? Studying tilt and emotion regulation in video games.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Conceptualization and validation of the TILT questionnaire: relationship with IGD and life satisfaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- The impact of videogames on the mood of amateur youth players during consecutive games.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduces Competitive Anxiety and Modulates Heart Rate Variability in an eSports Player.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to analyse the neuroendocrine stress response, psychological anxiety response, and perceived match importance (PMI) between expert and non-expert control gamers in an official competitive context. We analyzed, in 25 expert esports players and 20 control participants, modifications in their somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety, self-confidence, PMI, and cortisol in a League of Legends competition. We found how expert esports players presented higher cortisol concentrations (Z = 155.5;
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