title: Athletic identity, sport participation, and psychological adjustment in people with spinal cord injury.
abstract: This study examined interrelationships among athletic identity, sport participation, and psychological adjustment in a sample of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants (N = 1,034) completed measures of athletic identity, life satisfaction, anxiety, depression, and demographic and sport participation variables. Current amount of weekly sport participation was positively related to athletic identity when statistically controlling for age, gender, and pre-SCI amount of weekly sport participation. Being able to practice one's favorite sport after SCI was associated with higher levels of athletic identity and better psychological adjustment. Team sport participants reported experiencing better psychological adjustment than individual sport participants did. The findings suggest that social factors are important in the link between sport participation and psychological adjustment in people with SCI.
authors: University School of Physical Education in Poznan, Poland.
authors: Tomasz
authors: T
authors: Tasiemski
authors: Britton W
authors: BW
authors: Brewer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012933:Social Identification; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D013178:Sports Medicine; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult