A Bayesian Approach to Sport Injuries Likelihood: Does Player’s Self-Efficacy and Environmental Factors Plays the Main Role?

Frontiers in Psychology

Alexandre García-Mas¹  Víctor J. Rubio²  Pilar Fuster-Parra³  Aurelio Olmedilla⁴  Constanza Pujals⁵ 

[1] Department of Basic Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain;Department of Biological and Health Psychology, School of Psychology, University Autonoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain;Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Intervention, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain;Department of Psychology, Faculdade Ingá/UNINGA, Maringá, Brazil;

关键词: injuries likelihood;    psychological triggers and consequences;    self-efficacy;    sport injuries;    Bayesian networks;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01174

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 self-efficacy 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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