Investigation of Injury Anxiety in Amateur Football Players

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 201 - 212, 21.07.2021

Mustafa Demir

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the injury anxiety of football players in terms of demographic variables. In line with this purpose, A team of football players (n = 190) of football clubs (93 teams) in Istanbul province and operating in the Istanbul Super Amateur League in the 2019-2020 season participated in the study. In order to measure the injury anxiety of football players, "Sports Injury Anxiety Scale" was developed by Rex and Metzler (2016) and adapted into Turkish by Caz, Kayhan, and Bardakçı (2019), and a personal information form created by the researcher were applied. Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro Wilk's tests were used to test the conformity of variables to normal distribution. Team footballers (n = 190) of football clubs (93 teams) located in Istanbul province and operating in the Istanbul Super Amateur League during the 2019-2020 season participated in our study. As a result, 119 of 190 football players had previous sports injuries and 69 of them had surgical intervention. A significant difference was found in the total score of sports injury anxiety and the letting down ımportant others sub-dimension according to the injury status of football players. According to the results of sports injury anxiety, it was observed that the anxiety level of losing social support was high in the 21-25 age group where the participants were intense. It is observed that the anxiety levels of the injured football players are higher in the sports injury anxiety and disappointment sub-dimension compared to the non-injured players.

Keywords

football, sports injury anxiety, sports anxiety, sports injury

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