Psychological Impact of Campus Football Training among Teenagers: Basis for Training Design

Abstract

Student undergoing football training are exposed to stress. The lack of baseline information on assessing the relationship between profile and psychological impact in terms of sources and symptoms of stress in China led to the conduct of this study.  This quantitative research was utilized a descriptive comparative research design to assess the differences between the psychological impact of campus football training to the profile of the student-respondents . Findings of the study revealed that most of the respondents were between the ages of 17-21 and just over half of the respondents were males. Further, most of the respondents were second year students. Almost half of the student had a moderate level of the sources of stress. Overall, the sources of stress had moderate impact to the students. Majority of the students had a high level of  physical and mental symptoms of stress. In general , age, sex, and year level have no significant relationship with sources of stress and the mental and physical symptoms of stress. In conclusion, age, sex, and year level does not have psychological impact in terms of sources of stress and symptoms of stress. This comes to show that no matter what the person’s age, whether young or old, whether male or female, or whether first year or second year or third year or fourth year, a person can still experience a high level of psychological impact in football training, be it the source of stress or mental and physical symptoms of stress. To address the findings of the study, a football training design was created.