Abstract
Resilience is a psychological characteristic which enhances personal assets and protects individuals from potential negative effects of various stressors. While this topic has been considered in the separate context of sports injuries and anxiety states, these issues have rarely been considered together. The objective of this study is to analyse the association between motivation to overcome injuries in football and the state of anxiety caused by those injuries. One hundred and eighty-five footballers from Spain were analysed by way of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaires, and an injury self-registration sheet. Statistical analyses were performed using structural equations. Results showed a direct and positive relationship between the capacity to face up to injuries or potential injuries and to adapt successfully to them for injured footballers, especially when anxiety was considered as a transitory emotional state. In addition, this relationship was stronger in non-injured sportspersons because their resilience capacity was not being impaired by the experience of an injury.
Highlights
It is generally accepted that participation in professional sport carries an elevated risk of injury [1,2]
The model demonstrated acceptable fit to the data using the goodness of fit index (GFI = 0.93), the comparative fit index (CFI = 0.93), the incremental fit index (IFI = 0.93), the adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI = 0.88) and root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), which produced a value of 0.06
It is important to note that all measurements were made at the beginning of the season, meaning that state anxiety levels could have been lower than expected during periods of high competition, and this may influence the strength of the correlations identified for resilience [45, 48]
Summary
It is generally accepted that participation in professional sport carries an elevated risk of injury [1,2]. There are numerous studies which cite the incidence and prevalence of sports injuries in the context of organised sport and their relationship with some psychological attributes of players [4, 6,7]. Anxiety is defined as a feeling of apprehension or threat that generates an increase in physiological activation [10]. This type of reaction is linked to the demands of the environment and especially in situations of competition in sport. This is due to external and internal judgments about individual capacity, which are perceived as a threat that generates insecurity.
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