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Objectives: To determine the profiles of increased risk of anxiety in relation to certain demographic variables. Material and Methods: We studied 200 women from the municipality of Cartagena-Murcia (Spain), aged between 18 and 65. To assess anxiety STAI was used for the practice of physical activity and sociodemographic questionnaire was used ad hoc. We performed a factorial analysis of variance, which was established as the dependent variable anxiety, such as fixed-factor exercise or physical activity and random factors as age, educational level, occupation and children. Results: The profile that characterizes the most vulnerable group of women to show higher anxiety levels: sedentary women, aged 18 to 24, or more than 54 years, no education or secondary education, student, housewife or working for others, and without children. Discussion: The procurement of this profile may be useful for possible intervention policies which enhance the practice of physical activity and other preventive measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to assess the perceived social stress and its relation to sports injuries in tennis players. Sixty-three male tennis players, with a mean age of 31.62 years (SD = 8.93), Sports Clubs belonging to the Province of Alicante (Spain) completed instruments of psychosocial stress and injuries sustained during the previous year the assessment. The results indicate that life events experienced was related to some of the injuries suffe­red by players. Relationships were found between the degree of psychological stress experienced and the negative evaluation of this strain, the type (le­sions on wrists, ankles and sprains), and severity of injuries (minor injuries). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main focus of this study was to analyze the different psychological factors considered important in explaining the risks of injury that professional and semi-professional soccer players are exposed to while playing their sport. Two hundred seventy-eight soccer players were the object of study. One questionnaire was used to evaluate psychological factors and another was used to collect data on injuries soccer players had suffered in the last three years. The results indicate that concentration is a variable that discriminates meaningfully between injured and uninjured soccer players. An evaluation of sport performance showed a meaningful relationship to very severe injures within the group of injured players; it also showed a trend towards statistical significance between self-confidence and anxiety variables and the total number of injures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to conduct a gender-based analysis of research projects approved for funding by the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD). For this purpose, we analysed all research projects approved for funding by the CSD (N = 185) between the years 2006-2012, taking the information from the CSD's website. For each of the research projects, the following variables were analysed: a) the institution; b) type of institution; c) region; d) discipline; e) amount of funding; and f) gender of the main researcher (MR). The most significant results indicated that: a) in 21.08% of the projects, the main researcher was female; b) 136 researchers, 55 institutions, and 15 regions have had at least one project approved by the CSD; c) the institution with the highest number of approved research projects was Madrid's Universidad Politécnica, followed by the same city's Universidad Europea; d) research projects by state universities were mainly approved for funding, followed by private ones; e) the Madrid region is the region with the highest number of approved research projects; f) the discipline for which most research projects were approved was the field of sports performance, followed by sports medicine, teaching and management; g) the average amount of funding awarded per research project was 11,151.21 euros and the projects that receive higher amounts have a male main researcher, are conducted by state universities, are in the Extremadura region, and are awarded for the fields of biomechanics, sports performance and training. This data is aimed at offering an insight into the approval of projects by the CSD, and it can be used both by sports research policy experts and potential participants in research projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe a football team's mood processes during competitions through the administration of specific measures. A second division (level B) Spanish football team (Rayo Vallecano SAD, Madrid, Spain) was evaluated by means of the short Spanish version (15 items, Fuentes, García-Merita, Meliá and Balaguer, 1995) of the Profile of Mood State (POMS, MacNair, Lorr and Droppelmann, 1971), four times during the play-off phase (after the end of the regular season) to move on to a higher level during the 2006-07 Spanish Professional Soccer League season (level 2A). The results showed the absence of significant differences in the scores on the POMS' five scales (Depression, Vigour, Anger, Fatigue and Tension) recorded before the four play-oft matches, meaning the existence of a consistency in the team's mood states during the whole phase of the play-off and the absence of significant fluctuations in mood medium- lasting processes. Despite that, the POMS' graphic averages displayed several patterns related to different scales. We suggest that the proposed method is useful in studying athletes' and teams' cognitive-emotional processes during specific types of ongoing competitions, as they ensure high ecological validity and provide information for more effective interventions tailor-made for teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]