Sports Injury Prevention in Youth: Research and Intervention from Psychology and Other Sport Sciences
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Sport and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 42954
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sport psychology; sport injuries; high performance; personality; mental health; soccer
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Sports injuries are a constant in physical activity and sport and represent, to a greater or lesser degree, an obstacle that most athletes have to face and which could have an impact on their sport development, particularly in young athletes. Despite the biomechanical aspects involved in an athlete sustaining an injury, multidimensional factors such as training schedules, surface characteristics, nutrition, sleep, and other health habits, social pressure, competitiveness, motivation, etc. play a role. Identifying such factors and their interactions are key in developing prevention programs. One of the factors which have been highlighted by sport psychologists is stress. Since Andersen & Williams (1988) seminal proposal of a model linking the athlete’s stress response and vulnerability to a sports injury, several studies have shown promising effects in reducing sport injuries using intervention programs aimed at improving athletes’ stress management skills. Nevertheless, there are still issues to answer, such as identifying techniques and target groups according to psychological profiles that make the interventions more effective, and tackling implementation issues that can reduce that. Moreover, due to the multidimensionality of the phenomenon, analyzing the interactions between factors such as training schedules, coaching styles, and athletes’ stress could produce more effective interventions. This special issue is open to leading-edge contributions from psychology and other sport sciences focused on research and intervention of young athletes’ sports injuries.
Dr. Aurelio Olmedilla
Prof. Víctor Rubio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Prevention of sports injuries
- Young athletes
- Stress
- Psychological factors
- Sports science
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