Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
African Educational Research Journal, cilt.8, sa.1, ss.141-145, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
Sports injuries are caused by physical activity that is done to spend leisure time or a more specialized
purpose. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of psychological skills (basic, cognitive and
psychosomatic) in reducing traumatic student injury at the University of Trabzon. The method of this
research is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population includes all Trabzon University athletic
students, which is equal to 320 people. To determine the sample size, the Cochran's sample size
estimation formula was used and the number of samples was 175, which were selected by gender by
stratified random sampling method. First, to report sports injuries to describe the extent of injuries in the
limbs (upper limbs, lower limbs and trunk) and various parts of the body (joints, muscles and bones), the
report form of sports injuries was used and to measure athletes' mental skills, the OMSAT-3, psychological
skills questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Due to the normality of the data
in psychological tests and the occurrence of sports injuries, logistic regression was used. The research
findings show that the total score of the Omest-3 test (OR = 0.66, P = 0.03) affects the occurrence of player
injuries, as well as the score of basic psychological skills (OR = 0.82, P = 0.04) on the occurrence of player
injuries and ultimately the score of psychosomatic skills (OR = 1.17, P = 0.002) affects the occurrence of
player injuries. But in the case of cognitive skills, the effect of this variable and its dimensions on player
damage is not significant. As a result, it can be said that basic psychological skills and psychosomatic skills
of athletic students reduce the harm to these athletes.
Keywords: Psychological skills, cognitive psychological skills, psychosomatic skills, sports injury.