OBJECTIVE To evaluate symptoms and neurocognitive recovery patterns after sports-related concussion in high school and college athletes. STUDY DESIGN College athletes (n = 371) and high school athletes (n = 183) underwent baseline neuropsychological evaluation between 1997 and 2000. Individuals who received a concussion during athletic competition (n = 54) underwent serial neuropsychologic ev...

Success in sport and school is related to self-regulation. Additionally, sport experts are high academic achievers. We examined the role of 6 self-regulatory skills in the sport and academic performances of elite youth athletes (12-16 years) and compared their scores with age-matched controls in 2 academic secondary school systems (pre-university vs. pre-vocational). Pre-university students out...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and incidence of injury in iranian elite wrestlers. 60iranian elite athletes participated in this study. data were collected with injury report form and neo personality questionnaire. the descriptive statistics and pearson correlation coefficient at a significance level of 95% were used for data analysis...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between motivational characteristics and dispositional flow. In order to accomplish this goal, motivational profiles emerging from key constructs within Achievement Goal Theory and Self-Determination Theory were related to the dispositional flow measures. A sample of 413 young athletes (Age range 12 to 16 years) completed the PMCSQ-2, POSQ, ...

Trait anxiety is a personality characteristic that describes the tendency to feel anxious across a variety of situations, while state anxiety refers to the anxiety experienced in a specific situation (Cox, 2007). Previous research has suggested that high trait anxious individuals experience more situation-specific state anxiety (Horikawa & Yagi, 2012). Additionally, prior research has indicated...