PSYCH 124S Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Psychological Stress, Psych, Kobe Bryant
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Principles underlying the team-building program in a sport setting. Youth vs high school vs pro. Football and concussionsfootball and concussions another one. Obviously accidents happen, but other factors may be at play: To date, personality factors associated with athletes" injuries have not been successfully identified. People with high levels of life stress have more sport- and exercise-related injuries. Smith and colleagues (1990) found that life stress related to injuries only in at-risk athletes (those with few coping skills and low social support). Individuals who have low self-esteem, are pessimistic and low in hardiness, or have higher levels of trait anxiety experience more injuries or loss of time due to injuries. The greatest stress sources for injured athletes were not the physical aspects but the psychological ones (e. g. , fear of reinjury, shattered hopes or dreams). Teaching stress management can reduce risk of injury and illness. Stress disrupts an athlete"s attention by reducing peripheral attention and causing distraction and task-irrelevant thoughts.
