Psicologia Esportiva em esportes e combates

Correlation of aggressiveness and anxiety in fighting sports.
Tiric-Campara M, Tupkovic E, Mazalovic E, Karalic E, Biscevic M, Djelilovic-Vranic J, Alajbegovic A.

Fonte: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22486144
Neurology Clinic, Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina. merita.tiric@gmail.com

INTRODUCTION:
in fighting sports there are many opened issues related with levels of aggression and anxiety.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
Our study is performed with healthy young athletes: kick boxers, karate fighters, and boxers. Examined group consisted of 55 members (45 male) with average age of 20.2 +/- 3.8 years. In analysis of level of aggression Questionnaire A-87 is used. Its purpose is assessment of aggressive behaviour in provoked situations, or measurement of impulsive aggression. Questionnaire A-87 consists of 15 items of different situations with five possible responses.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:
The possible responses or reactions are the five most frequent forms of aggressive responses: a) verbal manifestaggression (VM); b) physical manifest aggression (PHM); c) indirect aggression (IND); d) verbal latent aggression (VL), and e) physical latentaggression (PHL). In the analysis of anxiety is used Beck Anxiety Inventory, BAI. Average training period was 7.8 +/- 3.6 years. Even 37 athletes during sporting carriers were injured, and most of examiners (precisely 13) experienced 3 injuries. Average value of BAI was 12.7 +/- 8.7. Average value of total aggression was 152.2 +/- 40.9; highest levels were observed in VM (33.9) and VL (30.1). Significant positive correlations of all components of aggression with level of anxiety is observed (p < 0.05), most prominent IND (r = 0.4263; p = 0.0012), and VL (r = 0.4163; p = 0.0016), and also total aggression (r = 0.4822; p = 0.0002). Slightly significant positive correlation of total aggression with age of examiners is also observed (r = 0.2668, p = 0.0489). Positive correlation VM (r = 0.4928; p = 0.0001), PHL (r = 0.2761; p = 0.0413), and total aggression (r = 0.347; p = 0.0094) is observed with number of injuries of examined athletes. Also, positive correlation (r = 0.2927, p = 0.0301) is observed with level of anxiety and number of injuries. Higher level of aggression and anxiety might change attitude of some sports authorities (especially coaches), and additional psychological training of fight sports might be necessary.
CONCLUSION:
Assessment of basically levels of aggression and anxiety of athletes might be valuable not only in sport activities, but in overall aspects of life.

De acordo com o artigo, feito através de estudos pela Universidade Clinica de Savarejo, em esportes de combate, como nas lutas, existem muitos problemas relacionados a diferentes níveis de agressividade e ansiedade. Podemos assim citar cinco: manifestação verbal, manifestação e agressão física, agressão indireta, manifestação verbal dissimulada e manifestação física dissimulada. Depois de avaliados, foi observado que metade dos atletas apresentou danos físicos significantemente graveis. A avaliação ente os níveis de agressão e ansiedade dos atletas pode ser muito valiosa, não só em atividades esportivas, mas em aspectos gerais da vida.