Abstract
Pressure on wrestlers to be exposed to injuries cause them to have reinjury anxiety in the next term. Aim was to investigate anxiety levels toward sport-injuries. The sample consisted of 408 (263 male, ≥ 18 years) Turkish professional and amateur wrestlers. Demographics were obtained through online-platform with Google Forms due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic including personal information Form and Sports Injury Anxiety Scale (SIAS). Independent-sample t-test was used for gender, professional/amateur, rehabilitation after injury, and competitions during which wrestlers were injured. Pearson correlation analysis was used for the relationship between variables, the Sports Injury Anxiety Scale, and its sub-dimensions. There was a significant difference between groups in terms of disappointment, weak perception-anxiety according to gender variable (p
Publisher
Akdeniz Spor Bilimleri Dergisi (Mediterranean Journal of Sport Science)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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