Applicability of Brums: mood profile in athletes of volleyball and tennis in high performance

Introduction:

Mood states are indicators that greatly help the performance and the prevention of health problems in athletes.

Objective:

To analyze the applicability of BRUMS questionnaire to assess mood states in volleyball (n=59) and tennis (n = 69) male high performance athletes.

Methods:

To compare the independent variables: sport (volleyball and tennis); practice time in high performance (up to 2 years, more than 2 years) and age groups (youth and adults) with the dependent variables of the mood profile (tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue and confusion). The causal-comparative study used for data collection, BRUMS questionnaire, was validated in Brazil with the participation of the author of this study.

Results:

When performing the MANOVA, differences were found between the sports (F= 4.289/p=0.001; Hotelling's Trace = 0.216) and practice time (F= 5.845/p<0.001, Hotelling's Trace = 0.295) in force. The sport compared with practice time showed a significant interaction of the two variables (p=0.003) of approximately 7% of the variance. This was also demonstrated in the variables tension (p=0.05 - volleyball vs. practice time), anger (p=0.001-volleyball vs. age category). In tennis, depression p=0.001, anger p=0.04, confusion p<0.02 with larger average in adults more experienced.

Conclusion:

The mode was responsible for 11% of the change in mood profile (p=0.001).

affect; volleyball; tennis