Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate burnout levels of athletes studying at the faculty of sports sciences. 250 students (female; 102, male; 148) who study in Ondokuz Mayıs University, at the Faculty of Sport Sciences and actively participate in sports life were included in the study. The 5-point Likert-type sports burnout scale developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Kelecek et al.(2016) was used to determine the burnout levels of the subjects. SPSS 22.0 program was used in the statistical analysis of the study. When the results of the study were examined, in gender, team and individual athletes status and in emotional / physical, declining sense of success in section variables, in none of the sensitization sub-dimensions no statistically significant difference was found (p>0.05). As a result, it is thought that the absence of significant difference in the levels of athletic burnout in the findings of the current research may be due to the subject groups’ actively continuing sports, studying at the same faculty and and therefore having the same intensity courses. However, in future researches, when examined with variables such as individually separation of branches, training densities, league levels they play and classes, it is thought that it may make a difference.
Highlights
The concept of burnout was first proposed by Freudenberger in 1974. Freudenberger (1974) noticed a number of changes in himself in his busy schedule and occurring in other employees and started research and observation on this concept that he thought that this concept affected effectiveness and productivity as psychosocial structures negatively
The special burnout scale for athletes was developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and therfore it has been the center of attention in short process by modern day sports scientists and scientists working in the field of psychology
When the burnout levels of subjects were examined according to gender variable, no statistical significance was found in all sub-dimensions (p>0.05) ( Table 1)
Summary
The concept of burnout was first proposed by Freudenberger in 1974. Freudenberger (1974) noticed a number of changes in himself in his busy schedule and occurring in other employees and started research and observation on this concept that he thought that this concept affected effectiveness and productivity as psychosocial structures negatively. People engaged in sports amateur or professionally go through a long and difficult process to catch a high-level performance and while going through this process, they face many physical and psychological difficulties. The challenges they face reveal both physical and psychological wears in athletes unintentionally. As to Raedeke (1997) and Raedeke and Smith (2001), they mentioned burnout concept as an emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced sense of achievement and multidimensional psychological syndrome characterized by depersonalization. The relationship between burnout in athletes and many psycho-social parameters such as anxiety, perfectionism, team conflicts, loyalty, communication skills and life satisfactions, job satisfaction, doping use has been studied by many sicientists and its relationship with many of these concepts has been revealed (Appleton et al, 2009; Cremades & Wiggins, 2008; Cremades et al, 2011; Kelecek & Göktürk, 2017; Kelecek & Göktürk, 2018; Afyon & Işıkdemir, 2013; Doğan, 2016; Akbulut & Altınkök , 2018; Beşiktaş, 2016)
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