Estimating Athletes’ Psychological Acceptance to Sports Injury: Developing the Coping Free of Adhesion Level Scale
Tomonori TATSUMI (Kio University, JAPAN)
abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the coping free of adhesion (COFAD) scale estimating psychological acceptance to sports injury.
The subjects were 137 highly competitive college athletes in Japan, who were forced to stop playing for more than one week owing to injury suffered after they entered universities.
They were asked to fill out questionnaire consisted of the following 2 scales: COFAD (2factor: Work self-consciousness (WOSC) / Accepting reality (ACRE)) and validated Psychological stress coping scale (2factors: Problem-focused coping (PRO-COPE) including subscales of Problem solving (PS) and Positive thought (PT) / Emotion-focused coping (EMO-COPE) including subscale of Avoidance (AV), Catharsis (CA), and Distractive recreation (DR) (Shibukura & Mori, 2002)).
The main results were as follows:
1. Significant positive correlations were found between WOSC and PRO-COPE (r=.47, p=.00); WOSC and PS (r=.30, p=.00); and WOSC and PT (r=.49, p=.00). On the other hand, Significant negative correlation were found about between WOSC and EMO-COPE (r=-.18, p=.05); WOSC and AV (r=-.34, p=.00).
2. Significant positive correlations were found between ACRE and PRO-COPE (r=.28, p=.00); ACRE and PT (r=.31, p=.00). On the other hand, Significant negative correlation were found about between ACRE and EMO-COPE (r=-.31, p=.00); ACRE and AV (r=-.32, p=.00); and ACRE and CA (r=-.35, p=.00).
Consequently, the relation between COFAD factor and active stress-coping was suggested, and criterion-related validity of COFAD scale was demonstrated.
