Abstract:

Sports have both physical and mental benefits for human beings. Individuals perform sports in different branches. Some of them work as a hobby and others as amateur or professional. Physical injury of individuals during sports is at stake. Exposure to injury eventually becomes fear of injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the injury anxiety in terms of demographic variables in athletes interested in different sports branches. For this purpose, a total of 147 athletes (117 male and 30 female) participated in the study. In the study, “Sports Injury Anxiety Scale” adapted by Caz, Kayhan and Bardakçı (2019) and “Personal Information Form” created by the researcher were used as data collection tools. The findings of the study show that the collected data provide the assumption of normality (skewness= ,699; kurtosis=, 877). As a result of the study, it is seen that there are significant differences between gender variable and injury anxiety. However, it was determined that the anxiety of injury between the athletes who had previous arm or leg surgery and those who did not have any meaningfulness. Similarly, it was concluded that the anxiety of injury was not significant among the athletes interested in individual or team sports. In addition, the level of significance was taken as 0,05.

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