The role of psychological skills (basic, cognitive and psychosomatic) in reducing traumatic student injury at the University of Trabzon

Heidar Sajedi, Deniz Ozturk and Mehmet Ertugrul Ozturk

African Educational Research Journal
Published: August 26 2020
Volume 8, Special Issue 1
Pages S141-S145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.8S1.20.022

Abstract

Sports injuries are caused by physical activity that is done to spend leisure time or a more specialized purpose. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of psychological skills (basic, cognitive and psychosomatic) in reducing traumatic student injury at the University of Farhangian. The method of this research is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population includes all Farhangian University athletic students, which is equal to 320 people. To determine the sample size, the Cochran's sample size estimation formula was used and the number of samples was 175, which were selected by gender by stratified random sampling method. First, to report sports injuries to describe the extent of injuries in the limbs (upper limbs, lower limbs and trunk) and various parts of the body (joints, muscles and bones), the report form of sports injuries was used and to measure athletes' mental skills, the OMSAT-3, psychological skills questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Due to the normality of the data in psychological tests and the occurrence of sports injuries, logistic regression was used. The research findings show that the total score of the Omest-3 test (OR = 0.66, P = 0.03) affects the occurrence of player injuries, as well as the score of basic psychological skills (OR = 0.82, P = 0.04) on the occurrence of player injuries and ultimately the score of psychosomatic skills (OR = 1.17, P = 0.002) affects the occurrence of player injuries. But in the case of cognitive skills, the effect of this variable and its dimensions on player damage is not significant. As a result, it can be said that basic psychological skills and psychosomatic skills of athletic students reduce the harm to these athletes.

Keywords: Psychological skills, cognitive psychological skills, psychosomatic skills, sports injury.

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