Armstrong Shelley, Oomen-Early Jody
Department of Health and Exercise Science, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA 71134, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2009 Mar-Apr;57(5):521-6. doi: 10.3200/JACH.57.5.521-526.
The authors compared collegiate athletes and nonathletes to see whether there were significant differences in the perceived levels of social connectedness, self-esteem, and depression and if an interaction among the variables of athlete status, gender, GPA, BMI, and levels of weekly exercise and sleep were associated with depression symptomatology.
Participants were 227 college students.
The authors surveyed students using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Social Connectedness Scale-Revised.
Athletes had significantly greater levels of self-esteem and social connectedness, as well as significantly lower levels of depression, than did nonathletes. However, the statistically strongest predictors of depression in this cohort were the variables of gender, self-esteem, social connectedness, and sleep.
This study adds to the limited and inconsistent research in the empirical knowledge base regarding depression among collegiate athletes.
作者对大学生运动员和非运动员进行比较，以观察在社交联系感、自尊和抑郁的感知水平上是否存在显著差异，以及运动员身份、性别、平均绩点（GPA）、体重指数（BMI）、每周锻炼和睡眠水平等变量之间的相互作用是否与抑郁症状相关。
参与者为227名大学生。
作者使用流行病学研究中心抑郁量表、罗森伯格自尊量表和修订后的社交联系感量表对学生进行调查。
与非运动员相比，运动员的自尊水平和社交联系感显著更高，抑郁水平显著更低。然而，该队列中抑郁的统计学上最强预测因素是性别、自尊、社交联系感和睡眠等变量。
本研究为关于大学生运动员抑郁的实证知识库中有限且不一致的研究增添了内容。
