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An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study

Background: This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study which aimed to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of sport practice (weekly training duration, level of practice) and alexithymia in adults who were officially licensed at a sports club. Methods: From a sample of sports...

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Autores principales: Proença Lopes, Catarina, Allado, Edem, Poussel, Mathias, Hamroun, Aghilès, Essadek, Aziz, Albuisson, Eliane, Chenuel, Bruno
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8950812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35326910
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030432
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author Proença Lopes, Catarina
Allado, Edem
Poussel, Mathias
Hamroun, Aghilès
Essadek, Aziz
Albuisson, Eliane
Chenuel, Bruno
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Allado, Edem
Poussel, Mathias
Hamroun, Aghilès
Essadek, Aziz
Albuisson, Eliane
Chenuel, Bruno
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description Background: This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study which aimed to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of sport practice (weekly training duration, level of practice) and alexithymia in adults who were officially licensed at a sports club. Methods: From a sample of sports club licensed adults, 188 participants were included. The participants completed computerized questionnaires on anthropometric data and characteristics of sport practice (level and weekly time spent on sport practice) as well as alexithymia (TAS 20), depression (BDI-13) and anxiety traits (STAI-Y form B). Results: In this sample, 91 (48.4%) and 97 (51.6%) athletes engaged in recreational and competitive sport practice, respectively. We observed a prevalence of 31.9% for alexithymia. Moreover, alexithymics were more involved in competitive than recreational practice (40.2% versus 23.1%, respectively; p = 0.019) and they were less anxious (63.9% versus 80.2%, respectively; p = 0.010). Finally, alexithymia was significantly more pronounced than non-alexithymia among sports competition practitioners (OR: 3.57 (95 CI [1.26–10.08]; p = 0.016) and we observed less alexithymia in team sports practice than confrontation sports (OR: 0.20 (95 CI [0.05–0.78]; p = 0.020). Conclusions: Alexithymic athletes were more involved in competition than recreational sports compared to non-alexithymic subjects, whilst there were more alexithymic athletes in confrontation sports than in team sports.
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spelling pubmed-89508122022-03-26 An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study Proença Lopes, Catarina Allado, Edem Poussel, Mathias Hamroun, Aghilès Essadek, Aziz Albuisson, Eliane Chenuel, Bruno Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study which aimed to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of sport practice (weekly training duration, level of practice) and alexithymia in adults who were officially licensed at a sports club. Methods: From a sample of sports club licensed adults, 188 participants were included. The participants completed computerized questionnaires on anthropometric data and characteristics of sport practice (level and weekly time spent on sport practice) as well as alexithymia (TAS 20), depression (BDI-13) and anxiety traits (STAI-Y form B). Results: In this sample, 91 (48.4%) and 97 (51.6%) athletes engaged in recreational and competitive sport practice, respectively. We observed a prevalence of 31.9% for alexithymia. Moreover, alexithymics were more involved in competitive than recreational practice (40.2% versus 23.1%, respectively; p = 0.019) and they were less anxious (63.9% versus 80.2%, respectively; p = 0.010). Finally, alexithymia was significantly more pronounced than non-alexithymia among sports competition practitioners (OR: 3.57 (95 CI [1.26–10.08]; p = 0.016) and we observed less alexithymia in team sports practice than confrontation sports (OR: 0.20 (95 CI [0.05–0.78]; p = 0.020). Conclusions: Alexithymic athletes were more involved in competition than recreational sports compared to non-alexithymic subjects, whilst there were more alexithymic athletes in confrontation sports than in team sports. MDPI 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8950812/ /pubmed/35326910 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030432 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Proença Lopes, Catarina
Allado, Edem
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Hamroun, Aghilès
Essadek, Aziz
Albuisson, Eliane
Chenuel, Bruno
An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title_full An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title_short An Association between Alexithymia and the Characteristics of Sport Practice: A Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort association between alexithymia and the characteristics of sport practice: a multicenter, cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8950812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35326910
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030432
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