Aggression and Perception of Pain among Young Candidates to Professional Soccer Players

Abstract

Aggression is a constant feature in an athlete's life. This is because training and too many competitions require a proactive attitude to these demands, hence the importance to distinguish aggression and violence. The same demands that generate aggressiveness also cause pain and injury due to excessive training and competitions. The influences and guidance experienced in the early formation of an athlete's career are related to other aspects of personality like aggression, perception of pain and effort developed during an athlete's history and his interaction with the environment. This study evaluated 87 adolescent athletes from the base team of a large professional soccer club in the city of São Paulo through the application of psychological assessment tests. The results showed differences among different subgroups of adolescent athletes, as well as differences between these results and normative data described in the manuals of instruments used. When comparing the results from groups of the Brazilian sample of this research with the results of subjects included in the original German manual, the results show much higher average scores in the sporting context.

Quando a dor não faz parte do uniforme: os necessários cuidados com atletas e cuidadores no processo de reabilitação

“…Silva, Ribeiro Filho, & Matsushima, 2010) Os estudos sobre a questão da dor na literatura esportiva têm se multiplicado, principalmente em função da diversidade de fatores envolvidos tanto no diagnóstico como no afastamento do atleta das atividades competitivas. Diferentes estudos apontam para o manejo dos fatores psicossociais envolvidos com a dor, superação da lesão e sua reabilitação (Cavalcanti & Porpino, 2015;Godoy Moreira & Rubio, 2009;Nemeth, von Baeyer, & Rocha, 2005;Rubio & Godoy Moreira, 2013;Rubio, Rabelo, & Goncalves, 2015) (Kvist, Ek, Sporrstedt, & Good, 2005;Petering & Webb, 2011) afirmam que faz parte da condição de atleta suportar algum tipo de dor. Porém, poucos são aqueles que aprendem a discrimina-la e classifica-la, bem como que tipo de dor ignorar e qual atender e responder, dificultando a avaliação da quantidade de dor que são capazes de tolerar prejudicando assim tanto a prevenção de lesões como a reabilitação.…”