Psychological Factors Related to the Occurrence of Athletic injuries

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen Kerr ◽  
Harold Minden
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
National Level ◽  
Athletic Injuries ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Self Concept

This study reports data regarding gymnastic injuries. Examined were the number, severity, and location of injuries, events associated with injury occurrence, relationship in time between occurrence and competition, and the perceptions of causes. In addition, this study investigated the relationships between the psychological factors of trait anxiety, locus of control, self-concept and stressful life events, and the occurrence of athletic injuries. The subjects were 41 elite female gymnasts and five national level coaches. There was a high rate of injury (83 %), primarily to the ankle region, with most injuries occurring during the floor exercise. The timing of injuries was related to the approach of competition. The data indicated that stressful life events were significantly related to both the number and severity of injuries. Significant relationships were not found between trait anxiety, locus of control, self-concept, and the injury measures.

scholarly journals Factors associated with relapse of schizophrenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
AKM Akramul Haque ◽  
AHM Kazi Mostofa Kamal ◽  
Zinat De Laila ◽  
Luna Laila ◽  
Helal Uddin Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric illness with high rate of relapse which is commonly associated with noncompliance of medicine, as well as stress and high expressed emotions. The objective of the study was to determine the factors of relapse among the schizophrenic patients attending in outpatient departments of three tertiary level psychiatric facilities in Bangladesh. This was a cross sectional study conducted from July, 2001 to June, 2002. Two hundred patients including both relapse and nonrelapse cases of schizophrenia and their key relatives were included by purposive sampling. The results showed no statistically significant difference in terms of relapse with age, sex, religion, residence, occupation and level of education (p>0.05), but statistically significant difference was found with marital status and economic status (p<0.01). The proportion of non-compliance was found to be 80% and 14%, of high expressed emotion was 17% and 2% and of the occurrence of stressful life events was 10% and 1% in relapse and non-relapse cases respectively which were statistically significant (p<0.001). The study indicated that stressful life events, high expressed emotion, and noncompliance with medication had a role in schizophrenic patients for its relapse.Bang J Psychiatry December 2015; 29(2): 59-63

Locus of Control and Stressful Life Events

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Perceived Locus Of Control

Crandall and Lehman (1977) suggest that an accummulation of life stresses causes a person to change his/her perceived locus of control. The present study argues that the converse is more likely, i.e., locus of control influences one's perception of life events. The SRRS and l-E scales were administered to 191 subjects. Locus of control did not correlate with normally computed SRRS scores, but it did correlate with SRRS scores when these were based on the subjects' own rating of degree of stressfulness. These results appear to support the hypothesis.

Psychosocial Predictors of Psychopathology in Epilepsy

1990 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Hermann ◽  
Steven Whitman ◽  
Allen R. Wyler ◽  
Michael T. Anton ◽  
Roger Vanderzwagg
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Financial Stress ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Psychosocial Predictors ◽  
Perceived Stigma ◽  
External Locus ◽  
The Past

The 30-item version of the GHQ was administered to 102 adults with epilepsy, and four sets of variables (neurological, psychosocial, medication, demographic) were used to predict psychiatric distress. Psychopathology was found to be associated with increased perceived stigma, elevated number of stressful life events during the past year, poor adjustment to epilepsy, financial stress, vocational problems, external locus of control, and an earlier onset of epilepsy. Multiple regression procedures reduced this list to three independent predictors of psychopathology: an increased number of stressful life events in the past year, poor adjustment to epilepsy, and financial stress.

Which patients talk about stressful life events and social problems to the general practitioner?

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1299 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. DEL PICCOLO ◽  
A. SALTINI ◽  
C. ZIMMERMANN
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Stressful Life

Background. Life events and social problems are common in primary-care attenders and contribute to the high rate of emotional distress observed in this setting but are often not disclosed during the consultation. Physicians' characteristics associated with patients' disclosure of psychosocial problems are well documented, but less empirical evidence is available on the contribution of patients' variables.Method. Logistic regression analyses were performed on a set of clinical and psychosocial data from 319 primary-care attenders with stressful life events and/or social problems in the presence or absence of emotional distress, in order to identify the variables that predict disclosure of such problems during the consultation.Results. Two-thirds of patients with stressful life events and social problems had mentioned them to their GP. In both sexes a positive attitude about confiding and emotional distress were the best predictors of confiding. In men they accounted for 76% of correct predictions and, in women, together with past confiding, long-lasting relationship with GP, and coexistence of life events and social problems, for 81%. A positive confiding attitude was related in males to age and severity of medical condition and in females to age and experience of past confiding.Conclusions. In view of the high prevalence of positive attitude towards confiding the efforts by GPs should focus on the reduction of disclosure thresholds. This would require increased abilities to elicit psychosocial information and show emphatic understanding of patients' life difficulties. By contrast there is a need to promote a positive attitude in confiding that concerns only a minority of primary-care patients. More data are needed for shaping more specific strategies for these patients.

Anxiety, depression and stressful life events among medical students: a prospective study in Antalya, Turkey

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Aktekin ◽  
Taha Karaman ◽  
Yesim Yigiter Senol ◽  
Sukru Erdem ◽  
Hakan Erengin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Anxiety Depression

Stressful life events in pregnancy and head circumference at birth

2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Obel ◽  
Morten Hedegaard ◽  
Tine Brink Henriksen ◽  
Niels Jørgen Secher ◽  
Jørn Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Head Circumference ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
In Pregnancy
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