Abstract: This study explores the relationship between reinjury anxiety and body dissatisfaction among female collegiate athletes to promote mental health awareness in women’s sports. Reinjury anxiety arises from concerns about one’s injury, the possibility of reinjury, and their potential consequences (e.g., emotional distress and decreased sports participation). Body dissatisfaction, a negative attitude toward one's appearance, is linked to low self-esteem, a construct known to affect reinjury anxiety. Female athletes often experience social physique anxiety and pressure to conform to ideal body standards. This study aimed to (1) explore the correlation between reinjury anxiety and body dissatisfaction, (2) assess if body dissatisfaction predicts reinjury anxiety more than time loss, and (3) determine if athletes fear physique changes following reinjury.

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Abstract: Emotion-related impulsivity (ERI) describes the trait-like tendency toward poor self-control when experiencing strong emotions. ERI has been shown to be elevated across psychiatric disorders and predictive of the onset and worsening of psychiatric syndromes. Recent work has correlated ERI scores with the region-level neuroanatomical properties of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), but not posteromedial cortex (PMC). Informed by a growing body of research indicating that examining the morphology of specific cortical folds (sulci) can produce unique insights into behavioral outcomes, the present study modeled the association between ERI and the morphology of sulci within OFC and PMC, which is a finer scale than previously conducted.

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