Sources and Consequences of Athletic Burnout Among College Athletes

By D. Gould, Meredith A. Whitley. 2009

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It has been shown that it takes 10 years or 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to develop one’s talent in any field, including athletics (Ericsson, 1996). Given the amount of time, sacrifice, and effort needed to become an expert athlete, it is not surprising that researchers have been interested in examining burnout in competitive athletes (see: Cresswell & Eklund, 2006; Goodger, Gorely, Lavalle, & Harwood, 2007; Gould & Dieffenbach, 2002, for detailed reviews). While burnout has been defined in several ways, it can generally be viewed as a physical, social, and emotional withdrawal from a formerly enjoyable activity as a result of chronic stress and motivation concerns that is typically characterized by feelings of emotional exhaustion, reduced accomplishment, and depersonalization/devaluation. In this review, research and theories on burnout in athletes are examined for the purposes of identifying sources of and consequences of burnout in collegiate athletes. Future research directions are identified ...

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Athlete burnout: an integrated model and future research directions (2011, background): “As recently stated by others (Gould & Whitley, 2009), most studies have included athletes with low levels of burnout (see Raedeke & Smith, 2009), which might confuse burnout with symptoms of stress.”
• Peer motivational climate and burnout perceptions in adolescent athletes (2010, background): “A motivational phenomenon linked to organized sport participation that has garnered attention in the sport science literature is athlete burnout (Eklund & Cresswell, 2007; Goodger, Gorely, Lavallee, & Harwood, 2007; Gould & Whitley, 2009; Smith, Lemyre, & Raedeke, 2007).”
• Psychological resilience in sport: A review of the literature and implications for research and practice (2015, background): “In the context of sport, emergent resilience may be relevant in the case of more long-standing stressors such as the day-to-day demands of being an intercollegiate student–athlete (e.g. Gould & Whitley, 2009).”
• Interaction of athletes' resilience and coaches' social support on the stress-burnout relationship: A conjunctive moderation perspective (2016, background): “Competitors, male or female, must start training at young ages and engage in year-round vigorous training to be wellprepared for the competitive season (Gould & Whitley, 2009).”
• Can Good Come From Bad? An Examination of Adversarial Growth in Division I NCAA Athletes (2012, background): “The professionalization of college sports may increase the risk of sport burnout, defined as “a physical, emotional, and social withdrawal from a formerly enjoyable sport activity” (Gould & Whitley, 2009, p. 18).”