Author(s)

Pierluigi Diotaiuti^*, Stefania Mancone, Stefano Corrado

Department of Human Sciences, Society and Health, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy.

A sample of 111 runners was given a survey to illustrate their experience in using sports monitoring devices. Competitive experience proved to be a determining variable in influencing the strategy of using digital devices, suggesting a specific ergonomic model, so that the functionalities of sport trackers were first discovered, then consolidated and finally subjected to a rigorous selection. A relatively more passive and dependent attitude towards the monitoring tools in competitive running was found in subjects with less competitive experience (p < .05), less personal resilience (p < .01), less target orientation (p < .0001). The more experienced runners, on the other hand, have shown that over time they have acquired a progressive mastery and internal control of their performance functions, so that they were sufficiently autonomous to structure the relationship of use with the sport trackers in a strictly instrumental way, for which there was no perception of dependence or submission.

Sports Tracker, Device Dependence, Resilience, Self-Regulatory Modes, Running Agonistic Experience

Diotaiuti, P. , Mancone, S. and Corrado, S. (2020) Using Sports Tracker: Evidences on Dependence, Self-Regulatory Modes and Resilience in a Sample of Competitive Runners. Psychology, 11, 54-70. doi: 10.4236/psych.2020.111005.