Investigating basic mental and cognitive skills in the occurrence of sports injuries in male and female professional soccer players

Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1648-SSRC
Authors
1دانشگاه رجا
2گروه تربیت بدنی و علوم ورزشی،دانشگاه صنعتی امیر کبیر
3فدراسیون پزشکی ورزشی ج.ا.ا
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Over the past years, the position of psychology in the field of professional football has improved. Psychological factors such as motivation, reaction to stress, goal setting, mental training, concentration have a significant effect in improving the performance of football players.Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate basic mental and cognitive skills in the incidence of sports injuries in male and female professional soccer players. Research methodology: The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlational in terms of method. The data collection method is a survey. The statistical population of the research included all professional Iranian football players. In order to determine the statistical sample of the research, 60 people were randomly selected from all professional football players in Iran. Vaez Mousavi's mental skills questionnaire (1379) and Australian sports medicine pathology questionnaire were used to collect data. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics were used to analyze the demographic characteristics. In the inferential part, the two-string point correlation coefficient test was used using spss version 26 software. Findings: The results of the two-point correlation coefficient showed that there is no significant difference between basic mental skills (p=0.852) and cognitive skills (p=0.589) in the incidence of sports injuries in male and female professional footballers.Conclusion: In this study, although it was shown that there is no significant difference in some psychological factors in the occurrence of sports injuries in male and female professional footballers, therefore, the management and improvement of psychological factors can be effective as a preventive approach in reducing the occurrence of sports injuries.
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