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ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Feeling the Stress: Salivary Cortisol Responses of Softball Umpires during National Championships.

Ronald J Houison, Andrea Lamont-Mills, Michael Kotiw, Peter C Terry

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Article in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ronald J HouisonSchool of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1677-9659
Andrea Lamont-MillsAcademic Affairs Administration, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich 4305, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9109-3462
Michael KotiwSchool of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich 4305, Australia.
Peter C TerrySchool of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress research in sports tends to focus on athletes, with sports officials typically being overlooked. In the current study, baseline, pre-game, and post-game cortisol levels among a sample of softball umpires were measured to assess the pattern of stress responses and determine if umpire performance (pass/fail) and position on the diamond (plate/field) could be predicted from cortisol levels. Nine male and four female participants aged 25-68 years (

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anxietybiochemistrycortisolhormonesoftballsports officialsstressumpires

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PMID38786997
PMCPMC11125777

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