Molenaar Bodile, Willems Charlotte, Verbunt Jeanine, Goossens Mariëlle
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Adelante Center of Expertise in Rehabilitation and Audiology, Zandbergsweg 111, 6432 CC Hoensbroek, The Netherlands.
Children (Basel). 2021 Jul 12;8(7):591. doi: 10.3390/children8070591.
Pain is a common problem in elite athletes. This exploratory study compares goal orientations towards sport, fear of failure, self-handicapping and pain catastrophizing between active young elite athletes with and without chronic pain (CP) complaints (longer than three months). It examines the associations between chronic pain, fear of failure, goal orientations, self-handicapping and pain catastrophizing in young elite athletes. We explore how far goal orientation can be explained by these factors.
Young elite athletes completed an online questionnaire.
Independent samples -test, correlational analyses and multivariate regression analyses.
Participants were 132 young elite athletes (mean 16 years); data for 126 were analyzed. A total of 47% reported current pain, of which 60% had CP. Adolescents with CP showed significantly more pain intensity, fear of failure, self-handicapping and mastery-avoidance goals than those without. Pain intensity was significantly related to fear of failure, self-handicapping, pain catastrophizing and mastery-avoidance. Self-handicapping and fear of failure contributed significantly to mastery-avoidance variance. Performance-avoidance and -approach goals were explained by fear of failure.
CP was common, with sufferers showing more fear of failure and self-handicapping strategies, and being motivated to avoid performing worse (mastery-avoidance). Self-handicapping and fear of failure influenced mastery-avoidance orientation, and fear of failure explained part of performance-avoidance and -approach orientations. Longitudinal studies should explore the role of these factors in the trajectory of CP in these athletes.
疼痛是精英运动员中常见的问题。这项探索性研究比较了有慢性疼痛（CP，持续超过三个月）主诉和无慢性疼痛主诉的活跃年轻精英运动员在运动目标取向、对失败的恐惧、自我设限和疼痛灾难化方面的差异。它研究了年轻精英运动员中慢性疼痛、对失败的恐惧、目标取向、自我设限和疼痛灾难化之间的关联。我们探讨这些因素能在多大程度上解释目标取向。
年轻精英运动员完成一份在线问卷。
独立样本t检验、相关分析和多元回归分析。
参与者为132名年轻精英运动员（平均16岁）；对其中126人的数据进行了分析。共有47%的人报告目前有疼痛，其中60%患有慢性疼痛。与没有慢性疼痛的青少年相比，患有慢性疼痛的青少年表现出明显更高的疼痛强度、对失败的恐惧、自我设限和掌握-回避目标。疼痛强度与对失败的恐惧、自我设限、疼痛灾难化和掌握-回避显著相关。自我设限和对失败的恐惧对掌握-回避变异有显著贡献。对失败的恐惧解释了成绩-回避和成绩-趋近目标。
慢性疼痛很常见，患者表现出更多对失败的恐惧和自我设限策略，并有动力避免表现得更差（掌握-回避）。自我设限和对失败的恐惧影响了掌握-回避取向，对失败的恐惧解释了部分成绩-回避和成绩-趋近取向。纵向研究应探讨这些因素在这些运动员慢性疼痛发展轨迹中的作用。
