To persist or not persist?: Exploring student-athletes experience in returning to sport post-severe injury

• Main Author: Dominguez, Pocholo Luis V.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: College athletes > Wounds and injuries; Sports injuries; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_counseling/1; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etdb_counseling
• Institution: De La Salle University

Participation in organized collegiate sports activities have become increasingly popular among students due to the several physical and psycho-social benefits. However, sports injuries have become an unfortunate, yet inevitable part of a student-athletes’ career. The Expectancy-Value Theory suggests that there are two primary factors that affect an individual’s choice, persistence and performance, namely, expectancy for success and task values. In an effort to add a local set of data pertaining to reasons student-athletes have for returning to sport after severe injury, and supply additional information that will allow us to apply this framework and it’s elements theoretically and practically to a student-athletes’ experience, this research aims to explore De La Salle University - Manila UAAP athletes’ experience in returning to sport after sustaining severe sports-related injury - specifically, to determine the values that the student-athletes ascribe to their respective sports as demonstrated in the Expectancy-Value Theory. An exploratory research design and qualitative research methodology that used a semi-structured interview guide was specifically used to explore the student-athletes’ persistence during the rehabilitation period and investigate the factors that affect their commitment to return to sport after sustaining a severe injury that will result in at least one-month loss of physical participation. Thematic data analysis was used to explore the values that the student-athletes ascribe to their respective sports as demonstrated in the Expectancy-Value Theory.