Vključevanje invalidov v šport s psihološke perspektive

slovenian

2018

volume 66, issue 3/4

Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za šport

The purpose of this research is to see if there are any differences in emotional states, psychological wellbeing and satisfaction with life among disabled people, who engage in parasports (not necessarily on a top level) and disabled people, who don't do any sports. We also compared emotional states, psychological wellbeing and satisfaction with life between disabled people, who compete in parasports and disabled people, who engage in recreational sport. We set two hypothesis in accordance with those two purposes and obtained results from 289 disabled people, 109 of them engage in competitive parasports, 100 disabled people, who regularly engage in recreational sports, 58 who occasionally engage in recreational sports and 22 disabled people, who don't do any sports whatsoever. 166 participants were male and 123 were female, 97 were born with disability and 189 attained their disability in the course of their lives. We used the Satisfaction with life scale, Brunel mood scale, State - trait anxiety inventory and Psychological wellbeing scale. Results show that disabled people, who don't engage in sports, demonstrate the highest level of negative emotional states, that their psychological wellbeing is the lowest among our participants and that they are the least satisfied with their lives. On the other side, para-athletes (competitively active disabled people) are the most satisfied with their lives, experience the least negative emotions and experience the highest level of psychological wellbeing, while recreationally active disabled people place in between those groups of participants.

20.12.2021