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Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand how athletic identity and sport passion predicted participants\u2019 willingness to report symptoms above what was explained by athlete demographics, concussion knowledge, and perceived seriousness of concussions. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Design<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> The study was cross-sectional. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Methods<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Three-hundred and twenty-two male and female high school and club sport athletes completed survey measures of concussion knowledge, athletic identity, harmonious and obsessive passion, and degree to which athletes indicated they would report concussions and concussion symptoms. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Athletes scored moderately high on their knowledge of symptoms and other concussion information (mean\u2009=\u200916.21; <jats:italic>\u00b1<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20092.88) and above the midpoint on their attitudes and behaviors toward reporting concussion symptoms (mean\u2009=\u20093.64; <jats:italic>\u00b1<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.70). There were no differences between gender, <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>(299)\u2009=\u2009\u2212.78, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.44, and previous concussion education, <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>(296)\u2009=\u20091.93, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.06, related to concussion knowledge. Results of a hierarchical regression indicated that after entering athlete demographics, concussion knowledge, and perceived seriousness of concussions, of the 3 psychological variables in the final stage of the model, only obsessive passion was a significant predictor of athlete\u2019s attitudes to report a concussion. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Perceived seriousness of concussion, perceived threat to long-term health, and obsessive passion were the strongest predictors of athlete\u2019s willingness to report concussions. Athletes who did not believe concussions posed a threat to their current or future health, and those that held an obsessive passion for sport were most at risk for not reporting concussions. Future research should continue to investigate the relationship between reporting behaviors and psychological factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1123\/jsr.2022-0246","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,26]],"date-time":"2023-05-26T16:18:28Z","timestamp":1685117908000},"page":"757-763","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["The Influence of Athletic Identity, Passion, and Perceptions of Severity of Concussions on Athletes\u2019 Willingness to Report Concussion Symptoms"],"prefix":"10.1123","volume":"32","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5575-0341","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Eric M.","family":"Martin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7427-1060","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Megan","family":"Byrd","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Adriana","family":"Amador","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emma","family":"Ridenhour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carolena","family":"Charalambous","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"100","reference":[{"key":"r1","series-title":"Med Sci Sports Exerc","first-page":"S213","article-title":"Alternative approaches to the assessment of mild head injury in athletes","volume":"29","author":"Guskiewicz KM","year":"1997","unstructured":"Guskiewicz KM, Riemann BL, Perrin, DH, Nashner LM. 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