01776nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002100118653001100139653001400150653002100164653002300185653002700208100001300235700002500248700001700273245013700290300001000427490000600437520106300443022001401506020001401520       2001                            d  c01/2001bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aSport psychology10aStress10asuffering10aCoping resources10aEndurance athletes10aPerformance prediction1 aJ. Bueno1 aJ. Fernández-Castro1 aL. Capdevila00aFactorial and predictive validity of the Assessment Instrument of Coping Resources in Endurance Sports (AICRES): A exploratory study  a29-440 v73 aResearch which attempts to relate precompetitive factors like anxiety or mood state with performance in endurance sports is very extensive. However, precompetitive measurements have showed important incongruence in their results because they don’t bear in mind the changes in the emotional response of the athlete when the competition has begun (Hammersmeister y Burton, 1995). In this research the CADER (Cuestionario de Afrontamiento en Deportes de Resitencia; Assessment Instrument of Coping Resources in Endurance Sports) is presented. This is an evaluation instrument of the coping resources of endurance athletes which attempts to measure how they cope with successive competitive threats which arise when the competition has begun. With the application of a ‘principal components analysis’ we have obtained six factors which distinguish among different kinds of coping resources that show a strong predictive power over performance: dissociation, self-blame, social support, positive reappraisal, diminution / increase of effort and association.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437