kin 1070 Flashcards
sport psychology
understanding sport behaviour, and improving sport performance
exercise psychology
understanding and measuring exercise and sedentary behaviour
health psychology
psychological consequences of exercise
using exercise to change health behaviours
rehabilitation psychology
psycholgical predictors of injury, interventions to reduce injury, and process of injury recovery
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Method
250 Male and 201 female high school varsity athletes age from 14-19 years old. Participated in basketball, wrestling, or gymnastics at 13 seattle area high schools.obtained data from a total of 41 teams of the three sports
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Take Home Message
Social Support and coping operate in a conjunctive manner to influence the relationship between life stress and subsequenet ahtletic injury in youth athletes.
Only athletes low in both coping and social support exhibiited a significiant stress-injury relation, and in that vulnerable subgroup, negative major life events predicted up to 22% of injury occurrence scores.
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Implications
Most athletic injuries are influenced mained by physical and biomechanical factors, leaving less room to be accounted for by psychological factors.
Conjunctive Moderator Variables in Vulnerability and Resiliency Research: Life Stress, Social Support and Coping Skills, and Adolescent Sport Injuries
by: Ronald E. Smith, Frank L Smoll, and John T. Ptacek
Measures and Procedure
Each of the high schools, the athletes complete a series of questionnaires in a group setting in a week prior to the beginning of the sport season. The inventories included measures of recent life events, levels of social support experienced by the athlete, and self-perceived adequacy of psychological coping skills. Injury data were then collected over the course of the season.
Moderator variables
quatntitative variable that affects the nature, the direction or the strength of a relation between an independent or predictor variable and a dependent variable
Reducing Stress
In order to prevent injuries caused by stress, the intervention should focus on alteration of the cognitive appraisal of potentially stressful events and modifying the phsyiological and attentional aspects of the stress response.
Interventions may be used to directly influence the moeerator variables under coping resources and personality factors.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Rationale
If athletes were taught to better manage or cope with their stress, would the occurrence of injury be reduced?
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Subjects
24 voluntter gymnasts who competed nationally and internationally, 16 males from the age of 16-25 and 8 females between the age of 14 and 18 years old.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Design
2 arm randomized trial
Time period of study: Time 1 - preseason and pre-intervention measures (athletic stress): Time 2 - four months after Time 1 and represented mid-season: Time 3 - four months after time 2 and represented peak season (National Championships)
Dependent Measure: Injury occurrence- any physical harm, occuring as a reuslt of training or complete absence from training.
16 sessions delivered bi-weekly ove the 8 months, each session lasted 1 hour
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Injury Data
Each gymnasts had at least one injury over the 8-month period of study. 40% of the injuries interfered with trianing for two weeks or less, minor severity. 35% compromise training for 8 weeks or more, most of these injuries are chronic or overuse. They accept these injries as just the way things are. 3% of the injuries were major traumatic injuries such as fractures.
The effects of a stress Management Program on Injuries and Stress Levels
by: Gretchen Kerr, Judy Goss
Take Home Message
The incidence of injury can be reduced gymnasts when negative athletic stress is reduced
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Objective
The purpose was to conduct a systematic review of published articles aiming to prevent sports injuries based on psychological intervention and to perform a meta-analysis of the effects in such interventions
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Prospect and Projects
The electronic databases and suitable sport psychology journals were searched for published studies. OUt of 560 screened articles, 15 were potentially eligible articls. 7 of these articles with substantional informaiton in the papers or the authors were able to provide us with data after request were included.
Evaluaton of the effects of psychological prevention interventions on sport injuries: A meta-analysis
by: U. Traneus, A.Ivarsson, U. Johnson
Conclusion
Psychological injury prevention interventions have a large effect on reducing the number of injuries in sport poulation
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Partcipants
30 patients who had completed ACL reconstructive surgery; no evidence of other acute lower extremity truama; expected to engage in a 6 month post-surgical rehab
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Measures
Re-injury Anxiety: concern for re-injury reconstructed knee once normal physical activity is resumed
Pain: subjective experience of pain
Knee Strength: Cybex isokinetic dynamometer ( computing a ratio in foot pounds of performance on the injured knee to that of the uninjured knee)
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Procedure
Participats were randomly assigned to either treatment, placebo, control conditions
Measure of re-injury anxiety and pain were assessed at 2 weeks and 24 post-surgery
Measures of knee strength were assessed 24 weeks post-surgery
Treatment group: 10 individual session of relaxation and guided imagery (session spaced two weeks apart over the 24 weeks) and normal course of physiotherapy
Placebo group: received attention, encouragement and support from the clinican at the sports medicine facility + normal course of physiotherapy
Contorl: followed a normal course of physiotherapy
Why does imagery work?
Psycholgoical mechanisms: personal control, motivation
Reduce stress -> better immune-inflmmatory response -> promotes tissue regeneration and repair
Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain following Anteriror Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACL)
by: Deborah D. Cupal, Britton W. Brewer
Take Home message
Psychological-based interventions can enhance functional and related cognitive outcomes during rehabilitation
Bandura’s Model
Modeled Act -> Attention -> Retention -> Production -> Motivation -> Response