PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL FACTORS AS A MEASURE OF IRRITABILITY IN THE ATHLETES.

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to identify the confounding associations between mood
disorders and concomitant psychobiological precursors of inner emotional hindrances
observed in high performing athletes of Malaysia. Altogether one-hundred nine male
young competitive athletes young competitive athletes volunteered as participants, who
were subjected to evaluation of projective analyses of emotionality (in the form of indices
of irritability and suspicion); inner psychobiological status (autonomic indices of tonic and
phasic skin conductance response habituation paradigm components). Findings of multiple
linear regression analyses revealed corroborative relationships between differential
psychobiological and inner feelings of suspicion in predicting inner core emotionality.
Different Sc indices, such as - tonic and phasic components of skin conductance activity
were found to contribute onto the changes observed in the extent of feeling of irritability.
Corroborative psychophysiological markers for innate psychological make-up was
attempted to be established as differential models in multiple linear regression analyses
suggested varied ranges of direct, inverse and supportive relationships between
decomposition of autonomic orienting activity components related to affective-motivational
aspects of sports behaviour.