Correlation Research of Psychological Predictor Factors and Sports Injury in Mass Fitness Exercise

Objective:Not only to study on the correlation between psychological predictor factors of risk perception, risk taking, estimation of ability, previous injuries and sports injury in mass fitness group and to determine the predictive validity of these factors on sports injury in actual fitness training, but also to examine gender differences on these factors from the perspective of sports psychology, for the purpose of supplying the theoretical basis to further reduce and prevent sports injury effectively.Methods:To select 300 (150 male, 150 female) healthy volunteers aged 26 to 35 years as experimental subjects randomly from new members in fitness clubs.This prospective injury study set a 12-weeks fitness training program to them which consists 3⁴ times a week.These subjects were asked to provide information included self-reported risk perception, risk taking, estimation of ability and previous injuries.Then make test and evaluation for these factors by Risk of Injury in Sport Scale (RISSc) , Risk-Taking Behaviors Scale (RTB) and 5-point Likert-Type Scale.Then make statistical analysis of the data by correlation, multivariate logistic regression and multivariate variance (MANOVAs) .Results:1) Risk perception was not inversely related to risk taking or sports injury.2) Low levels of risk perception and estimation of ability were closely related to a significant increase in risk of injury, with odds ratios (ORs) ranging from 3.79⁷.95.3) The relationship between overestimation of ability and sports injury was positive.4) Estimation of ability was also positively related to risk taking.5) There was no direct relationship between risk taking and overestimation of ability, sports injury or previous injuries;6) There was also no direct relationship between previous injuries and sports injury;7) Females reported higher levels of risk perception and lower levels of risk taking than males.However, there were no gender differences on the factors of estimation of ability and overestimation of ability, and subsequently females and males incurred similar numbers of injuries in fitness training.Conclusions:1) Among the psychological predictor factors in fitness training, risk perception was not inversely related to sports injury;overestimation of ability was positively related to sports injury;risk taking was not related to sports injury.2) Low levels of risk perception and estimation of ability represent significant psychological risk factors for sports injury in mass fitness group.3) Females reported higher degree of risk perception and engaged in less risk taking which can be affected easier by previous injuries than males.According to estimations of ability, females and males reported similar.