Depresión, ansiedad, estrés y bienestar psicológico en deportistas a nivel élite y amateur

Abstract

This research focused on the subject of depression, anxiety, stress, and psychological well-being in elite and amateur athletes, based on the fact that high-performance athletes, professionals, elite or amateur athletes have at some time experienced these factors at least once Douring theyre athelete experience, be ti at competition level or a hobbyist, leading to an athlete to experience stress, anxiety, like depression have an impact on the psychological well-being, affecting performance and results in an optimal performance. The main objective of the research was to measure and compare depression, anxiety, stress and psychological well-being between elite and amateur athletes considering sociodemographic variables. A methodology with a quantitative approach and a non-experimental cross-sectional cohort design was proposed. The development of the research will be based on a theoretical perspective as well as a statistical analysis of the study population. The study tools were two 2, on the one hand depression, anxiety and stress factors were measured with the Dass-21 test and the Ryff psychological well-being test. According to the analysis carried out, it is concluded that the levels of depression, anxiety and stress in both groups exist but the level of significance does not allow the possible relationship between the factors in the study group. In addition, it was identified that elite and amateur level athletes do not seem to distinguish themselves against the psychological well-being factor. Likewise, sociodemographic variables such as gender showed that this variable is not a determinant of the presence of one of the study factors, while food expenses, age, as well as economic income denoted a great relationship with respect to the research factors.