have very high anxiety usually will more and more
make mistakes at the time of performance. The
anxiety is caused by excessive fear and pain
experienced. The psychological response displayed
by the athlete will determine and significantly
influence the quality and speed in the rehabilitation or
healing process (Brewer, 1994). Besides that, it is also
said that social support can also accelerate the
athlete's healing from injury, including emotional
support, instrumental, information, and appraisal
(Hagger et.all, 2005; Hogan, 2002).
Ahead of the 2015 SEA Games, almost all
national ski air athletes of Indonesia who are the team
of SEA Games 2015 sustained injury. This happens
because water ski includes extreme sports that use
means that can be dangerous. Injuries suffered by
Indonesian water skiing athletes include upper
extremities, lower extremities, or a combination of
both. The types of injuries suffered consist of acute
injuries and chronic injuries. Taylor and Taylor
(2007) mentioned that an acute injury (trauma) is a
sudden injury, such as an ankle sprain, which can be
detected immediately, that is, the pain that is directly
related to the injury. While chronic injuries (severe or
sickly) develop slowly from low exercise, and are
continuously experienced during exercise. The pain is
initially mild and it is usually difficult to connect the
beginning of the pain to a particular injury event.
In the water ski, there are 3 (three) numbers that
are contested: Slalom, Trick, and Jumping (Mattalata,
2000). Injuries that generally occur on water ski
athletes based on the number of matches are: 1)
Slalom: tearing of muscles or fractures on the
shoulders, sprained on the ankle; 2) Trick: strains on
the ankle and upper and lower arms, back and hip
injuries; 3) Jumping: sprain on the knee, ankle, neck
injury, fracture on the shoulders and thighs.
To evaluate the progress of Indonesian sporting
achievement can be seen through the results of
international championships or a popular sporting
event such as South East Asian Games (SEA Games)
which is regularly held every two years.
Achievements of Indonesian water ski athletes still
need to be improved. Singapore, Malaysia and
Thailand which are the top-rated waters ski rivals in
every game. Meanwhile, at this time all national
water ski athletes of Indonesia has experienced
injury. On the other hand, they require strong physical
preparation, high motivation, and ability to overcome
the anxiety that is felt due to the injury they
experienced. If the anxiety condition of an injured
athlete can not be overcome, the condition will
hamper the athlete's efforts to perform optimally to
achieve the expected performance in the match.
Meanwhile, the focus of the coach has been more on
training, not on the psychological aspects experienced
by injured athletes (Clement et al., 2013). Whereas
there are enough references to psychosocial strategies
that can be done for injured athletes such as goal
setting, imagery, positive self-talk, and relaxation
(Beneka et al., 2007). Before providing such
psychosocial strategies, the coach must first know
about the extent of anxiety felt by the injured athlete.
This research intends to apply the anxiety
instruments to the national ski air athletes of
Indonesian which is the team of SEA Games 2015
that has been injured. According Arikunto (2006), the
data collection instrument is a tool chosen and used
by researchers in its activities to collect the activities
become systematic and facilitated by it. Meanwhile,
according to Sugiyono (2010), research instrument is
a tool used to measure natural and social phenomena
observed (research variables).
Instruments as data collectors, according to
Suryabrata (2008) is a tool used to record (generally
quantitatively) the circumstances and activities of
psychological attributes. These psychological
attributes are technically classified as cognitive
attributes and non-cognitive attributes. Suryabrata
points out that for cognitive attributes, the revelation
is a question. As for non-cognitive attributes, the
revelation is a statement. The validity of the
instrument is defined as the extent to which the
instrument records or measures what it is intended to
record or measure. Whereas instrument reliability
refers to the consistency of the results of data
recording (measurement) if the instrument is used by
the same person or group of persons at different
times, or if the instrument is used by different people
or groups of people at the same time or at different
times.
Walker et al (2009) states that athletes think of his
injury both during the therapy process and when
going back to training and doing competition. Some
symptoms are experienced such as: nausea, sweating,
and tense. These symptoms are cognitive symptoms
(eg: negative thoughts, and worry) and somatic
symptoms (eg: physiological responses). Thus,
anxiety athletes who have experienced injury divided
into two, namely: 1) anxiety during the rehabilitation
process; and 2) anxiety on returning to the
competition. Based on the above description, the
instrument of anxiety instrument application that will
be conducted in this research is the application of
valid and consistent measuring instrument to collect
quantitative information about athlete’s anxiety that
has been injured, both anxiety during rehabilitation
process and anxiety on returning to the competition.
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