Psychological aspects of injured and non-injured athletes with some "Descriptive Study - Comparative"national team players

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor, Department of Fundamentals of Physical Education, Faculty of Physical Education, Sadat City University

Abstract

The aim of the study was to identify the differences between injured and noninjured athletes in the internal motivation for achievement . It also showed the effects of the injury on the athlete's self-confidence and anxiety. The researcher chose (120) players of the national teams in the Olympic Center in Maadi, and their ages range from 13 to 17 years of (boxing, wrestling and karate). The researcher chose the sample in a deliberate way from sports players (karate - wrestling - boxing) and it was [95] players as a basic sample and (15) players as an exploratory sample. Method: The researcher used the descriptive method "survey method". Results: the researcher found out : There are statistically significant differences between injured and noninjured karate, wrestling and boxing players in the internal motivation to achieve for non-injured athletes. Also, There are statistically significant differences between injured and non-injured players in self-confidence for non-injured athletes . In addition, There are statistically significant differences between injured and noninjured in anxiety for non-injured athletes in the dimension (self-confidence) and for the injured athletes in my dimension (cognitive anxiety and physical anxiety)