Relationship between Psychological Distress (Positive and Negative) and Ankle Instability among Collegiate Basketball Players

Chen, Yong Li (2022) Relationship between Psychological Distress (Positive and Negative) and Ankle Instability among Collegiate Basketball Players. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Basketball is also a sport characterized by behaviors such as running, changing directions, lateral movements, and jumping, especially the impact of landing, all of which can lead to injury. According to other studies, the ankle has the highest rate of injury among basketball players, regardless of gender and category. Student-athletes are having higher levels of psychological distress than non-athletes. Besides, many studies reported that there is a significant relationship between psychological distress and injuries. Furthermore, foot and ankle are often grouped as a single category instead of separate injuries and also a similar study among the collegiate basketball players is still lacking. Therefore, there is a need for further research to examine the relationship between psychological distress and ankle instability among collegiate basketball players. A total of 136 collegiate basketball players (108 males and 28 females; M age = 21.36; SD = 1.39) participated in this study by completing two questionnaires which are General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and Identification of Ankle Instability (IdFAI). The IdFAI will also be separated for evaluating both left and right ankles. Other than that, demographic data such as age, gender, height, weight, and level of competition were collected. The results showed that there is no significant relationship was found between the psychological distress (Positive and Negative) and ankles instability (p>0.05). However, there is a significant difference in ankle instability between the left and right leg (Z: -3.59, p: 0.0003). The mean of the left leg is higher (10.50 ± 7.45) than the right leg (8.88 ± 8.05). The conclusions of the study are psychological distress (Positive and Negative) does not have any effect on ankle instability among collegiate basketball players. In addition, Collegiate basketball players’ left ankle is more prone to instability than the right ankle