Dispositional Mindfulness and Injury Time Loss in Soccer

Sílvia Solé, Philipp Röthlin and Angel Blanch
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Sílvia Solé: Faculty of Nursery and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Philipp Röthlin: Elite Sport Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen, 2532 Magglingen, Switzerland
Angel Blanch: Department of Psychology, University of Lleida, 25001 Lleida, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-6

Abstract: Soccer injuries have a low prevalence, albeit prompting detrimental effects for individuals and teams, particularly with prolonged convalescence periods. Age and injury severity appear as the most robust correlates with recovery duration. The role of dispositional mindfulness remains unknown, however, despite considerable evidence that highlights positive effects of mindfulness on injury rehabilitation. This study sought to examine whether dispositional mindfulness explained additional variability in injury time loss in an elite sample of soccer players ( N = 207). A series of moderated regression analyses examined whether dispositional mindfulness interacted with either age or injury severity in explaining the length of recovery from an injury. The main findings suggest that dispositional mindfulness was unrelated with length of recovery. In contrast, age and injury severity related robustly with the length of lesion recovery, which was even longer for the older players with very severe injuries. The current findings constitute a novelty in the study of injuries in soccer and open new research lines to determine whether mindfulness interventions are likely to contribute to shorten objective rehabilitation length for a more sustainable approach to sports injury

Keywords: soccer injuries; recovery; mindfulness; elite sport; athlete’s wellbeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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