A bayesian approach to sport injuries likelihood: Does player’s self-efficacy and environmental factors plays the main role?
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la SaludPublisher
Frontiers MediaDate
2018-07-06Citation
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0117
Frontiers in Physiology 9 July (2018): Article 1174
ISSN
1664-042XDOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0117Funded by
This research was supported by the Spanish MINECO (Grant PSI2011-27000); and by Murcia Regional Football Association’s Football Project (Grant FFRM-UMU-04 0092 321B 6450214704)Project
Gobierno de España. PSI2011-27000Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01174Subjects
Injuries likelihood; Psychological triggers and consequences; Self-efficacy; Sport injuries; Bayesian networks; PsicologíaRights
© 2018 Olmedilla, Rubio, Fuster-Parra, Pujals and García-MasAbstract
The psychological factors of sports injuries constitute a growing field of study, even
from the point of view of the prediction of their occurrence. Most of them, however,
do not take into account the likelihood of the injuries’ occurrence and the weight and
role of the psychological variables on it. We conducted a study building up a Bayesian
Network on a big sample of athletes, trying to assess these probabilistic links among
several relevant psychological variables and the injuries’ occurrence. The sample was
constituted by 297 athletes (239 males, 58 females) from a wide range of sports: track
and field; judo; fencing; karate; boxing; swimming; kayaking; artistic rollerskating, and
team sports as football, basketball, and handball (Mean age: 25.10 ± −3.87; range:
21–38 years). Several psychological variables, such as anxiety, social support, and selfefficacy
were studied. Also, we recorded the history of injuries as well the body mass
index and personal epidemiological data. The overall picture of the generated graph and
Bayesian Network and its analysis – including the use of hypothetical data by means of
several instantiations – includes the nuclear role of the Self-Efficacy regarding the injuries’
occurrence likelihood; the decreasing impact of the competitive anxiety previous to the
injury; the probabilistic independence of the players’ risk behaviors, and the relevance
of the environmental clues such the use of coping strategies and social support in
order to build up a good level of Self-Efficacy after the occurrence of an injury. All these
data are relevant when designing both preventive and recovery interventions from the
multidisciplinary as well as from the psychological point of view
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Google Scholar:Olmedilla, Aurelio
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Rubio Franco, Víctor
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Fuster-Parra, Pilar
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Pujals, Constanza
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García-Mas, Alexandre
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