Coping strategies among long-term injured competitive athletes. A study of 81 men and women in team and individual sports
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Copingstrategien von langfristig verletzten Leistungssportlern - eine Untersuchung an 81 Sportler(inne)n aus Mannschafts- und Einzeldisziplinen |
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Autor: | Johnson, U. |
Erschienen in: | Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports |
Veröffentlicht: | 7 (1997), 6, S. 367-372, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource Elektronische Ressource (online) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0905-7188, 1600-0838 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0838.1997.tb00169.x |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU199801209109 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Differences in personality, mood and coping ability between athletes of a high competitive level with long-term injuries (n=81), with a mean age of 24.4 years, and a matched non-injured group (n=64), with a mean age of 24.2 years, were investigated. Three self-rating scales were employed: mood adjective check-list, general coping questionnaire and Karolinska scales of personality. Although no differences in basic personality traits were found, being injured was found to result in a depressed mood state and in the activation of coping strategies directed at receiving help. Comparisons were made between injured male and female athletes as well as between team-sport and individual-sport athletes. Women were found to become more anxious and tense and to have a stronger inclination to use emotion-focused coping strategies. Team-sport athletes were found to cope more in terms of "passive acceptance" of help from others, whereas individual athletes were found to activate "problem-solving" strategies in face of a stressor. The results suggest that social aspects of rehabilitative work are important and support the concept that rehabilitative work with long-term injured athletes should be individualized to be maximally effective. They also support the usefulness of cognitive models of the injured athlete's experience of being long-term injured. Such models, however, do not account for differences between the sexes or between individual and team athletes. Verf.-Referat