Uroh Clifford C, Adewunmi Celina M
Youth Sports Club, Akoka Study Centre, Lagos, Nigeria.
Human Kinetics and Health Education, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Front Sports Act Living. 2021 Apr 21;3:603415. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.603415. eCollection 2021.
This study explored the influence of athletic identity and sports participation on the psychological well-being of athletes during a pandemic. The objective of the study was to understand the psychological impact of the coronavirus lockdown measure on athletes who were not able to carry out their normal daily routine. Athletes from nine different sports completed an online survey during the sixth week of the total lockdown in Nigeria. The online survey consists of an athletic identity scale and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). Data collected were analyzed using Multiple regression and the Mann-Whitney test at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings revealed that category of sports (individual and team) ( = 0.73, = -6.116) and athletic identity ( = 59.16, = -0.166) predicts psychological distress to some degree. Few individual sports athletes and athletes with low athletic identity are prone to higher levels of psychological distress than team sports athletes and athletes with high athletic identity during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Individual sports athletes reported elevated levels of psychological distress compared to team sports athletes ( = -2.186, = 0.03, = 0.27). In conclusion, the results have confirmed that some athletes competing in individual sports experience elevated levels of psychological distress during the coronavirus pandemic, therefore they need the support of a sports psychologist during such periods to help in maintaining their psychological well-being.
本研究探讨了疫情期间运动身份认同和运动参与对运动员心理健康的影响。该研究的目的是了解冠状病毒封锁措施对无法进行正常日常活动的运动员的心理影响。来自九种不同运动项目的运动员在尼日利亚全面封锁的第六周完成了一项在线调查。该在线调查包括一个运动身份量表和凯斯勒心理困扰量表（K10）。收集到的数据使用多元回归和曼-惠特尼检验进行分析，显著性水平为0.05。研究结果显示，运动项目类别（个人项目和团队项目）（β = 0.73，t = -6.116）和运动身份认同（β = 59.16，t = -0.166）在一定程度上可以预测心理困扰。在冠状病毒大流行封锁期间，很少有从事个人项目的运动员和运动身份认同较低的运动员比从事团队项目的运动员和运动身份认同较高的运动员更容易出现更高程度的心理困扰。与团队项目运动员相比，个人项目运动员报告的心理困扰水平更高（t = -2.
