Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for the severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms, and the rate of flourishing, languishing, and extreme loneliness in athletes and non-athletes.
| Mental health | Athlete | Non-athlete | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Anxiety | Normal range | 153 | 47.2 | 187 | 55.2 |
| Mild | 83 | 25.6 | 65 | 19.2 | |
| Moderate/Severe | 88 | 27.2 | 87 | 25.7 | |
| Depression | Normal range | 242 | 74.7 | 247 | 72.9 |
| Mild | 59 | 18.2 | 61 | 18 | |
| Moderate/Severe | 23 | 7.1 | 31 | 9.1 | |
| Overall loneliness | No evidence of loneliness | 9 | 2.8 | 16 | 4.9 |
| Extremely lonely | 29 | 9.1 | 38 | 11.6 | |
| Emotional loneliness | No evidence of loneliness | 24 | 7.6 | 27 | 8.2 |
| Extremely lonely | 79 | 24.9 | 82 | 24.9 | |
| Social loneliness | No evidence of loneliness | 135 | 42.6 | 141 | 42.9 |
| Extremely lonely | 55 | 17.4 | 55 | 16.7 | |
| Wellbeing | Flourishing | 32 | 9.7 | 45 | 12.9 |
| Moderately mentally healthy | 290 | 87.9 | 290 | 83.1 | |
| Languishing | 8 | 2.4 | 14 | 4 | |