Athletic Coping Skills and Personality Differences among College Students Young athletes account for about 4 million injuries a year in the U.S. according to an article published in the Los Angeles Times (2010). US Today reported that approximately 1.35 million student athletes’ injuries were severe enough to send them to the hospital emergency department. Athletic injuries range from the simple ankle strains and sprains to more serious injuries such as: fractures, contusions, abrasions, and even concussions. The unexpected injuries can cause great physical and emotional challenges for these student athletes. Besides having to deal with the physical and emotional stresses they must also have to deal with the financial turmoil the injuries triggered. Recovering from sport injuries require more than undergoing rigorous physical rehabilitation. Physical healing which can take months is quite different from the mental and emotional healing which can take years to recover from. Collegiate athletes are already under an enormous amount of pressure even before enduring career-ending injuries. According to Kissinger (2009), student athletes normally struggle with six unique challenges. Student must be able to balance both athletic and academic responsibilities, along with balancing social activities, maintaining the stresses of relationships with coaches, teammates, friends, and parents. They also have to manage athletic success and/or failures with emotional stability. More importantly they have to balance physical health and injuries with the need to steady compete and with the termination of one’s college athletic career. Coping with injuries can be both physical and psychologically challenging. Recovering from sports injuries, ... ... middle of paper ... ...d for consent to proceed with the study. The participants were given thorough instructions that at any during the survey you can withdrawal your participation in the research, and that this is to benefit research to society. Participation is this survey was voluntary was emphasized. Participants were told that the surveys should take no longer than fifteen minutes and the personal information will remain confidential their results may be shared, but for research purposes only. The questionnaire will have a demographic sheet and a 50 item questionnaire divided into two sections. One part has a four point Likert scale (0= Almost Never, 1=Sometimes, 2= Often, 3 =Almost Always) and the other part is a selection of A or B. It was also reiterated that the participants had the right to withdraw from the research study at any time; there will be no consequences or penalty.
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All college students sitting in classrooms today face challenges that can impede their success. A challenging course schedule, competing demand for the student’s time, and college readiness are all factors that can hinder a student’s performance in the classroom. Moreover, these challenges also have the ability to impact the student’s overall student development. While most students share a common set of stressors, there are certain groups on campus that face pressures and challenges that are not shared by the majority of their peers. Student athletes are such a group. Joshua Watson (2005) noted the positive benefits of participating in intercollegiate activities, but also noted that such participation can lead to issues of “maladjustment, emotional illness, and psychological distress” (p. 442).
Due to the nature of sport, athletes will always be faced with the possibility of becoming injured. Empirical research has demonstrated that injury has a psychological impact on athletes (Quinn & Fallon, 1999). Indeed, sports practitioners often witness negative psychological impacts such as depression and in extreme cases suicidal tendencies in the injured athlete (Jevon & Johnston, 2003). Injuries have a dramatic impact upon an athlete’s life (Deutsch, 1985), Crossman (1997) interviewed athletic trainers and established that 47% of respondents believed that every injured athlete suffered psychological trauma. Walker, Thatcher and Lavallee (2007), explain there is a need to advance current knowledge of the way injured athletes psychologically respond, with deeper understanding it would be possible to aid rehabilitation professionals and help the athlete cope better psychologically. Psychological issues have an important role in the athletes ability to recover from injury (Arvinen-Barrow, Penny, Hemmings, & Corr, 2010), understanding how an athlete responds will have multiple practical implications. Ford and Gordon (1997) suggest that if an athlete experiences negative emotions then it will lead to non-complinace of the rehabilitation process. In order to understand athletes psychological responses to injury several frameworks have been suggested. These include the: integrated model of response to sports injury and rehabilitation (Wiese-Bjornstal, Smith, Shaffer, & Morrey, 1998), the Bio-Psychosocial model of sport injury rehabilitation (Brewer, Andersen, & Van Raalte, 2002), the staged-based grief response models (Kubler-Ross, 1969) and the stage model of the return to sport (Taylor & Taylor, 1997).
Welcome to your adult life, where you have a child that plays multiple sports and loves being active. You are currently sitting at your child’s soccer game when, all of a sudden, your daughter takes a hit to the head with a soccer ball and starts crying. What do you do? Do you go out there and tend to your child yourself or do you let the league’s on-site trainer take care of everything? You start to question yourself, asking “who should be responsible for making sure my daughter is ok?”. The correct answer is you. Athletes and their families tend to rely on the sports leagues support when it comes to injuries often. However, those families who participate in athletics should be familiar with the consequences of concussions and not depend on
National Institutes of Health. "Sports Injuries." NIAMS.com. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disieses. Web. 21 Apr. 2012. .This is a booklet that cites many injuries related to sports and describes many causes for many injuries, and what are the proper ways to treat and then prevent future injuries. This helps prove my thesis by giving a lot of information on many injuries that are inflicted on athletes, and then describing how physical therapy can help in recovery by means of strength, flexibility, etc.
Many times, an athlete’s psychological response to an injury is impacted greatly on their perception of their injury, rather than the actual injury itself. An athlete’s interpretation of their injury can be defined by the term cognitive appraisal (Brewer, 1994). The cognitive appraisal of an athlete’s injury can affect stress levels significantly by either lowering or heightening them. For example, an athlete can either perceive an injury as a threat or a challenge, and therefore will express either more or less emotional disturbance (Chung, 2012).
...an affect how kids do in school with the sports interfering with homework and studying time. Some teenaers focus more on sports than school in some cases while hoping for a sports scholarship. This can hurt their future. With so much focus on practicing with sports, school gets less attention than it needs.
The article explains whether or not college athletes are actually students and if athletes are prepared for the real world when they graduate. It shows that athletes are less prepared for college than the general population of students. In addition it describes that basketball and football athletes had the lowest academic potential amongst their peers. This article shows the how athletes really value their education.
Many kids dream of being collegiate athletes, though one must wonder if all the work is worth the risk. Student athletes all around the world are having fun doing what they love and receiving a free education in exchange for their God-given talent, however many don't realize that they’re all at the same risk to be injured and forced to pay for their medical expenses on their own. Not only would they be forced to pay for their medical expense, but also there is a great chance that they would lose their scholarship and all that they have worked for their whole entire life. Countless athletes lose their scholarships due to injuries. These “Students” are required to miss nearly 4 days of school to prepare for a game in one week. These athletes
As was done previously, common themes and ideas were grouped together during data analysis and then were examined. The findings for the study were grouped into four higher order themes: injury stress, coping strategies, experiences with social support, and recovery outcomes (Podlog, Wadey, Stark, et. al., 2013, p. 441). Injury stress, in particular, was defined as “a range of stressors and strain responses reported by the adolescents across the recovery time” (Podlog, Wadey, Stark, et. al., 2013, p. 441). One of the most commonly cited injury stressors was that many of the athletes reported physical pain associated with the injury occurrence that continued throughout the rehabilitation and return to sport (Podlog, Wadey, Stark, et. al., 2013,
In this, they could get hurt or injured in the game or at practice. If this happens for many of them, it is game over. Their athletic career had ended even before it got a chance to have a favorable outcome. In addition, since the students are not considered as employees when an injury occurs, they cannot recover, and they are swept under the rug (Dosh 203). Therefore, to further the students dream and ensure that they keep on playing the game they love, it is necessary for them to be given full advantages of an
Discussions about sports injuries in younger athletes are on the rise the past years and the rate just keep increasing and nothing is being done about the issue. High school athletes account for an estimated two million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year. More than 3.5 million kids under age 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year [Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America]. There are a lot of different ways of getting injured during sports. The most common injuries are; sprains, strains, growth plate injuries, repetitive motion injuries, concussions, and many more [Graham]. There is no exact way to eliminate sports injuries but there are ways to prevent them. This topic is very
In today's culture, we are driven by the entertainment industry, one being sports. There is no escaping the advertisement for not only professional sports organizations, but also intercollegiate sports. The attention is typically driven towards baseball, basketball, soccer, and football. American football tends to be in the spotlight most due to the ongoing publicity of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and their repercussions. This attention has led to increasingly strict guidelines for personal protective equipment and time off before return to play. Though new guidelines, requirements, and media attention help further reduce TBI incidences in football, the efforts have not crossed over to other sports industries, one being the equestrian sport.
Overall, research has shown that individuals suffering from sports injuries who commit to rehabilitation efforts, putting in their concentrated effort, use positive psychological skills while utilising their social support network and avoid any risk taking behaviours, are most likely to successfully recover from the injury and return to their previous athletic ability (Wiese-Bjornstal, Smith, Shaffer, & Morrey, 1998), than individuals who do not attempt these behaviours (Levleva & Orlick, 1991). Adherence to sports injury rehabilitation courses is an important aspect of behavioural responses to sports injury and recovery (Brewer, 1998). Specific environmental, situational and personal factors have been highlighted in relation to commitment to rehabilitation efforts (Wiese-Bjornstal, Smith, Shaffer, & Morrey, 1998). Self-motivations is a specific and powerful factor in personal rehabilitation, studies have shown a positive correlation concerning rehabilitation commitment and self-motivation (Duda, Smart, & Tappe,
Sports psychology is the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise and physical activity. Some sports psychologists work with professional athletes and coaches to improve performance and increase motivation. Other professionals use exercise and sports to enhance people’s lives and well-being. While finding ways to help athletes is certainly an important part of sports psychology, the application of exercise and physical activity for improving the lives of non-athletes is also a major focus.