ABSTRACT

This paper investigates how cultural narratives from people at varying positions in a team culture affect athletes’ attitudes toward concussion injures and concussion reporting. Power Five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes (N = 226) competing in high-concussion risk sports completed a survey exploring the frequency with which they heard performance or safety narratives from three distinct organizational sources: coaches, Athletic Trainers (ATs), and teammates. Athletes then completed scales measuring perceived immediacy of concussion consequences, perceived probability of suffering short- and long-term consequences of concussions, and three distinct dimensions of attitudes toward concussion-reporting behavior. Regression analyses revealed that both message frequency and source matter to athletes when forming attitudes and perceptions about the concussion-reporting behaviors that universities are advocating. Implications and recommendations for organizations designed to motivate athletes to report concussions to conclude the paper.

摘要

本文调查了团队文化中不同职位的人们的文化叙述如何影响运动员对脑震荡损伤和脑震荡报告的态度。Power Five 全国大学体育协会 (NCAA) 运动员 ( N = 226) 参加高脑震荡风险运动的人完成了一项调查，探索了他们从三个不同的组织来源听到表现或安全叙述的频率：教练、运动教练 (AT) 和队友。然后，运动员完成了测量脑震荡后果的即时性、脑震荡短期和长期后果的感知概率以及对脑震荡报告行为态度的三个不同维度的量表。回归分析表明，在形成对大学所倡导的脑震荡报告行为的态度和看法时，运动员的信息频率和来源都很重要。对旨在激励运动员报告脑震荡以结束论文的组织的影响和建议。