Sport Psych ch. 19 – Flashcards

3-17 million injured per year in sport or exercise. Physical factors=primary cause of injury.

Personality Factors: relationship not successfully identified Stress Levels: high life stress=more exercise related injuries Attentional Disruption: stress disrupts attention (reduces peripheral attention) causing distraction and task-irrelevant thoughts. Increased Muscle Tension:high stress=muscle tension=coordination interference

Low self-esteem, pessimistic, or high trait anxiety=more injuries or loss of time due to injuries. Greatest stress sources for injured athletes were psychological (ex. fear of re-injury, shattered hopes and dreams). Explanations: over emphasis on acting tough, failure to tell b/t normal and injury pn, "you're injured, you're worthless" attitude.

Psychological stress=^ catecholamines and glucocorticoids, which impair movement of healing immune cells to area of injury and removal of damaged tissue. Prolonged stress may decrease actions of insulin-like GH (help rebuilding process). Stress=sleep disturbance (interferes w/ physical recovery)

injury-relevant info processing, emotional upheaval and reactive behaviors, positive outlook (coping)

Period immediately following injury=greatest neg emotions Identity Loss: feel important part of self is missing when can't participate, affecting self-concept Fear and Anxiety: Worry whether they will recover, if someone will replace them, if re-injury will occur Lack of Confidence: may result in decreased motivation, inferior performance, or additional injury b/c athlete overcompensates Performance Decrements: many athletes have trouble lowering expectations and expect to immediately return to a pre-injury level of performance

Feelings of anger and confusion, denial, obsession over question of when they can return to play, guilt about letting team down, repeatedly coming back to soon and getting re-injured

Injury Phase: focus on helping athlete understand injury Rehab and Recovery Phase: focus= sustaining motivation and adherence to rehab (goal setting and pos attitude) Return to Full Activity Phase: Although cleared to participate complete recovery doesn't happen until normal competitive functioning occurs

Build rapport w/ injured party, edu injured person about injury adn recovery phase, teach how to cope w/ setbacks, learn from injured athletes

Sources: coaches, significant others, medical personnel Coaches and med professionals athletes turn to for info support; family and friends=social support Need is greatest when setbacks occur Can have neg side effects: when support providered doesn't have a good relationship w/ athlete, when support is forced

Set goals, focus on quality training, accept and positively deal w/ situation

foster athlete-coach contact and involvement, demonstrate pos empathy and support, don't repeatedly mention injury in training

edu. and inform athlete about injury and rehab, foster pos interaction and customize training, demonstrate competence and confidence