Examination of mindfulness and impulsiveness in university student-athletes in terms of sports injury development histor
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Examination of mindfulness and impulsiveness in university student-athletes in terms of sports injury development history Emre Ozan Tingaz 1,2
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Meryem Altun Ekiz 3 & Soner Çakmak 4
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The present study aims to the examination of mindfulness and impulsiveness in university student-athletes in terms of sports injury development history. A total of 181 athletes, 56 female, and 125 males, were included in the study. The Sociodemographic Information Form, the short form of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, and the Mindfulness Inventory for Sport were applied to the participants. In conclusion, the athletes with a history of injuring another athlete had a higher score average in impulsiveness scale. The total scores from the overall mindfulness inventory did not differ significantly based on the status of having injured another athlete. It was observed that the athletes who experienced severe injury had a lower score average in the overall impulsiveness scale compared to the athletes who experienced a moderate injury. No significant difference was observed in the score averages from the overall mindfulness scale based on injury severity. Among the most notable results of the present study are the positive relationship between motor impulsiveness and injury frequency and the negative relationship between mindfulness and the total of the impulsivity scale and all its sub-dimensions. Keywords Impulsivity . Mindfulness . Student-athlete . Sports injury
Introduction Sports injuries are defined as injuries that occur during participation in athletic activities. Although the biomechanical and medical aspects of sports injuries are addressed, this perspective disregards the injured athlete’s state of mind and cognitive, emotional and behavioral role within the process of injury
* Emre Ozan Tingaz [email protected] Meryem Altun Ekiz [email protected] Soner Çakmak [email protected] 1
Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Psychology, Institute of Social Sciences, Çağ University, Mersin, Turkey
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Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, School of Physical Education and Sports, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
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Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
development. Psychological studies contribute to achieving a better understanding of these individual psychological variables, which play a role in making the athlete more prone to sports injury. These studies have also included the analysis of athletes’ emotional and behavioral reaction to injury, and the examination of the effects of these reactions on the healing process and the athletes’ ability to resume training or competitions (Almeida, Olmedilla, Rubio, & Palou, 2014). With such studies, it is aimed to understand the importance of psychological variables in the processes before and after sports injuries. Deroche, Stephan, B
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