Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Forest Plot, Womac, Baby Steps

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1070A/B
• Professor: Harry Prapavessis

Document Summary

Focus will remain on: psychological predictors of injury, psychological consequences, Physiological: when an individual feels the demands of situation exceeds resource capabilities, stress is result. Cognitive appraisal of demands: when faced with stress, individuals will be faced with body sensation (ex. When experiencing stress, hard to focus on the surrounding factors. Personality, history of stressors, coping resources known as moderators. A moderator variable is a quantitative variable that affects the nature, the direction or the strength of a relation between an independent/predictor variable and a dependent/outcome variable . Stress relationship with injury, it can in uence strength of direction of that relationship. Belief is if social coping resource (someone to talk to) then injury can be prevented or moderated. History of stressors is previous injuries, more in the past exposes a high possibility. Personality: type a vs type b, type b will have weaker injury chance because more laid back, type a higher chance because more stressed.