Life-event stress was not significantly related to the number of days missed due to injury in male and female high school basketball players.
Observational
Does life-event stress correlate with the number of days missed due to injury in high school basketball players?
Life-event stress, coping skills, and social support were not significantly correlated with injury-related missed days in high school basketball players.
Past research has identified a positive relationship between life-event stress and football injuries, but research in other sports has yielded more ambiguous results. It seems, then, that the relation of life stress and injury may be sport-specific and that different sports must be studied separately before such a relationship is assumed. The present investigation examined the relationships among life-event stress, coping skills, social support, and injuries of male and female high school basketball players. Contrary to the hypothesis, the number of days missed due to injury was not significantly related to life-event stress. As expected, the injury measure was negatively correlated with both the coping-skills and social-support variables, but these correlations did not reach statistical significance. Recommendations for research are discussed.
Rider et al. (Sun,) conducted a observational in Injuries. Life-event stress was evaluated on Number of days missed due to injury. Life-event stress was not significantly related to the number of days missed due to injury in male and female high school basketball players.