Abstract
Psychosocial support and type a behaviour pattern in dealing with sports competition related stress. Psychosocial support has a particular inf luence on the adaptation of young athletes to competition. One manner of dealing with stress in these developmental stages is made up of the Type-A Behaviour pattern (TABP). This paper deals with the relationship among perceived competitive stress, worry about the sport competition and TABP in secondary school pupils of both sexes oriented towards high performance sport, with grants form the Castellón Center for Techniucal Spoerting Inititation (Centro de Iniciación Técnico-Deportiva de Castellón). The relationship between the variables has been put to the test using a structural equation model, considering perceived psychosocial support as an idependent variable, TABP as a dependent variable and the grade of worry about sport competition as a modulator variable. The results confirm the hypothesis and de signs of the coefficients obtained are coherent with the substantive aspects of the model.
