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Playing with Pain: Social Class and Pain Reporting among College Student-Athletes.
- Source :
- Sport Journal; 10/11/2018, p1-8, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Socio-economic class affects a variety of health outcomes -- this includes the experience of pain. Little work, however, explores how class affects pain experiences of college student-athletes. This gap is notable given injuries frequently occur in this population. We argue that lower class student-athletes will ironically be more likely to experience pain but less likely to report it. We find evidence for this claim with a large survey of student-athletes from a major National College Athletic Association conference. We further present evidence that class may influence pain reporting via identity, experiential, and social pathways. Our results highlight how potentially vulnerable student-athletes may "play with pain." The findings also suggest that practitioners should pay particular attention to self-reports of pain by lower class student-athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PAIN & psychology
HYPOTHESIS
ANXIETY
COACHES (Athletics)
COLLEGE athletes
COLLEGE students
CONVALESCENCE
SCHOLARLY method
CASE studies
PROBABILITY theory
REGRESSION analysis
SELF-evaluation
SOCIAL classes
SOCIALIZATION
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
SURVEYS
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
SPORTS participation
ATHLETIC associations
DATA analysis software
STATISTICAL models
PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15439518
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Sport Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132369021