| The moderating role of coping resources and social support in the life stress – sport injury relationship |
| Paper ID : 1687-SSRC-13TH |
| Authors |
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Maryam Hemmati *1, Mohammad Vaezmousavi2 1Department of Physical Education and Sport Science. Faculty of Humanities. Science and Research Branch. Islamic Azad University Tehran. Iran 2Professor of Imam Hossein university |
| Abstract |
| During recent decades many studies have investigated the role of psychological factors on incidence of sport injuries. According to the basic stress- injury model presented by Andersen and Williams these variables affect via stress response. This study examined the moderating role of coping resources and social support in the relationship between life stress and sport injury due to some documents that have supported the assumed role of these variables in reducing sport injuries. A total of 341 young male and female athletes of different sport majors (mean age 26.35) were included in this study based on convenience sampling. All the participants were restricted from sport activities at least for one day. Utilizing a retrospective design, participants’ stress level, coping strategies to manage stress and their perceived social support were assessed by the Life Events Survey for Collegiate Athletes, Athletic Coping Skills Inventory ACSI-28, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support respectively. The effect of social support and coping strategies on negative life stress-injury relationship were investigated using logistic regression analysis. Results showed that “low social support” had a significant moderating effect on stress and injury relationship. Coping strategies did not show any significant effect on stress and injury relationship, but it’s subscale of “peaking under pressure” had a significant effect on this relationship. According to these results the importance of providing varied, adequate and useful support nets to decrease the incidence of injury and its severity in young athletes would be clear. It seems that increasing the perception of social support as a coping resource, and using intervention methods in order to promoting acceptance and problem focused coping strategies in athletes can lead to better stress management and optimal athletic performance, and as a result will decrease the incidence and severity of sport injuries. |
| Keywords |
| social support, coping resources, peaking under pressure, stress, sport injury |
| Status: Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
