Psychological Resilience and Adolescent Sport-Related Concussion

Nikolas O Josafatow-García1, Jason B Tabor, Christina Campbell

  • 1Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Josafatow-García, Tabor, Fraser, Galarneau; Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Yeates); and C. A. Emery); Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Josafatow-García, Tabor, Campbell, Yeates, C. A. Emery, and C. T. Debert); Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Josafatow-García, Tabor, Galarneau, Yeates, and C. A. Emery); O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Campbell, C. A. Emery, and C. T. Debert); Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Josafatow-García, Tabor, Campbell, Yeates, and C.T. Debert); Departments of Paediatrics, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (C. A. Emery); Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (C. A. Emery); and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Josafatow-García).

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