Table 4.

Depression (CES-D) and anxiety (GAD-7) scores for different playing position, level of play and injured/uninjured top-level football players

	Male		Female
	First league players	U-21 players	First league players	All
CES-D	mean (SD)	mean (SD)	mean (SD)	mean (SD)
Playing position	N=179	N=73	N=176	N=428
Defender	7.09 (4.49)	12.1 (7.00)	8.86 (6.02)	8.59 (5.80)
Midfielder	6.41 (4.38)	8.42 (5.57)	8.81 (4.30)	7.76 (4.71)
Attacker	9.52 (5.80)	8.40 (5.08)	11.48 (6.57)	10.1 (6.00)
Goalkeeper	5.91 (3.41)	9.80 (4.66)	10.11 (6.85)	8.07 (5.52)
More than one	8.13 (5.87)	13.8 (8.08)	13.38 (5.61)	11.5 (6.59)
Level of play	N=182	N=73	N=177	N=432
>9 internat. matches	7.03 (5.59)	7.30 (5.74)	8.79 (5.21)	7.73 (5.45)
>19 national matches	6.96 (4.62)	8.38 (5.04)	9.13 (5.83)	8.06 (5.10)
>20 national matches	7.97 (4.43)	12.29 (6.75)	10.95 (6.47)	10.33 (6.16)
Currently injured	N=178	N=73	N=176	N=427
No	7.00 (4.54)	9.37 (6.39)	9.38 (5.41)	8.33 (5.34)
Yes	7.64 (5.84)	11.75 (5.27)	10.1 (7.73)	9.74 (6.28)
GAD-7
Playing position	N=195	N=74	N=177	N=446
Defender	1.51 (2.58)	2.25 (2.59)	2.70 (2.34)	2.13 (5.53)
Midfielder	1.13 (1.37)	2.06 (2.19)	2.53 (2.02)	1.85 (1.92)
Attacker	2.17 (2.73)	1.73 (2.20)	2.68 (2.32)	2.27 (2.49)
Goalkeeper	1.48 (1.73)	3.40 (2.19)	3.68 (3.07)	2.57 (2.59)
More than one	2.11 (2.32)	4.40 (5.51)	4.00 (1.51)	3.32 (3.11)
Level of play	N=198	N=74	N=178	N=450
>9 internat. matches	1.53 (1.97)	0.60 (0.84)	2.25 (1.82)	1.65 (1.86)
>19 national matches	1.40 (2.14)	2.09 (2.73)	2.68 (2.15)	2.03 (2.30)
>20 national matches	1.74 (2.33)	3.10 (2.64)	3.37 (2.81)	2.70 (2.68)
Currently injured	N=193	N=74	N=177	N=444
No	1.39 (2.01)	2.03 (2.62)	2.69 (2.22)	1.99 (2.27)
Yes	1.73 (2.36)	3.31 (2.50)	3.11 (2.60)	2.69 (2.56)

CES-D, Centre of Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder.