Relationship of Life Stress to Injury in Intercollegiate Volleyball
Journal of Human StressPublished 1 March 1986
Jean Williams, Phyllis Tonymon, Wendy A. Wadsworth
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No relationship was found between life stress and injury, indicating that previous findings for football players were not duplicated for intercollegiate volleyball players.
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The present study examined whether male and female National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I intercollegiate volleyball players with high life stress would be at greater risk for the occurrence of injury. Life stress was measured with the Social and Athletic Readjustment Rating Scale (SARRS) and the Athletic Life Experiences Survey (ALES). Regardless of how the data were analyzed (injured v noninjured, high stress v low stress, severity of injury), no relationship was found between life stress and injury, indicating that previous findings for football players were not duplicated for intercollegiate volleyball players. Also, different levels of coping resources among volleyball players did not mediate the life stress to injury rate but did differentiate injured from noninjured players.
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