Burnout in sport: A systematic review

By K. Goodger, T. Gorely, D. Lavallee, C. Harwood. 2007

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The purpose of the present review was to provide an up-to-date summary of the burnout-in-sport literature. The last published reviews were in 1989 (Fender) and 1990 (Dale & Weinberg). In order to appreciate the status of current knowledge and understanding and to identify potential future directions, the authors conducted a synthesis of published work using a systematic-review methodology. Findings comprised 3 sections: sample characteristics, correlates, and research designs and data collection. A total of 58 published studies were assessed, most of which focused on athletes (n = 27) and coaches (n = 23). Correlates were grouped into psychological, demographic, and situational factors and were summarized as positively, negatively, indeterminate, and nonassociated with burnout. Self-report measures and cross-sectional designs have dominated research. The authors conclude by summarizing the key findings in the literature and highlighting the gaps that could be filled by future research. Burnout in the sport setting was first investigated by Caccese and Mayerberg (1984) in a study of coach burnout. Similar to many concepts in sport psychology, the original conceptualization occurred outside sport, in this case in the work domain. Herbert Freudenberger (1974) is generally considered the founding father with his study on staff burnout among volunteers at a New York drug rehabilitation clinic. Around the same time, however, Christina Maslach, a social-psychology researcher, also began to coin the term to describe a gradual process of exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced commitment among poverty lawyers. Maslach’s work has continued to be instrumental in shaping the development of research in the field, and the more practitioner-based approach established by Freudenberger has forged a second tradition focused on the assessment, prevention, and treatment of the syndrome (Schaufeli & Buunk, 2003). In both the professional and sport settings the concept of burnout has been enormously popular and readily taken up. The media have been instrumental in popularizing the concept through (in the case of sport) sensational accounts of the dramatic demise of high-profile sports stars and the decline of young prodi gies who fail to fulfill their potential. It has become a colloquialism in the sport community and among the wider fan base (Raedeke, 1997; Vealey, Armstrong, Comar, & Greenleaf, 1998). Use of the term burnout also conjures powerful visual

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Coach Burnout: A Scoping Review (2019, unknown): “Specifically, in Goodger et al.'s (2007) review, fewer than half of the studies reviewed focused on coaches, and as the”
Athletes' career transition out of sport: a systematic review (2013, result): “In line with previous and accepted guidelines (Goodger et al., 2007; Sallis et al., 2000), correlates with fewer than three individual studies were either grouped into similar predictors during the analysis process or dropped from the summary table.”
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of burnout and recovery in elite soccer coaches (2012, background): “Although burnout is a highly personal experience (Schaufeli and Buunk 2003), no qualitative studies with burned-out coaches have been reported (Goodger et al. 2007, Gustafsson et al. 2008).”
Burnout and Its Relations with Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation among Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta#Analysis (2013, methodology): “Studying athlete burnout is important as there are several implications of burnout on athletes’ health and sport performance (Goodger et al., 2007).”
Athlete burnout: an integrated model and future research directions (2011, background): “None of the models emphasizes the interaction between personality and environmental aspects, which is largely lacking in athlete burnout research (Goodger, Gorely, et al., 2007).”
A person‐oriented approach to sport and school burnout in adolescent student‐athletes: The role of individual and parental expectations☆ (2017, methodology): “…& Wiggins, 2008), gender (Isoard-Gautheur, GuilletDescas, Gaudreau, & Chanal, 2015; Salmela-Aro et al., 2008), academic achievement (Salmela-Aro et al., 2008), and level of sport competition (Goodger et al., 2007), to be related to burnout, these variables were controlled for in the analyses.”