Athletes, former athletes, and non-athletes all selected fear of a poor individual performance from the choices to indicate their greatest sources of stress. The stress sources showed little variation across sports and among athletes, non-athletes, and former athletes. Many believe that coaches and/or parents are to blame for this. A reported thirty percent of athletes blame a coach or parent for their decision to quit sports all together. This is usually due to what is called a burn out. Burnout is defined by sport psychologists as “physical/emotional exhaustion, sport devaluation, and reduced athletic accomplishment.” Burn out can occur because of many different reasons such as, excessive stress and pressure to win, feelings of entrapment, costs of the sport begin to outweigh the benefits, disempowerment of an athlete, and loss of
Athletes, former athletes, and non-athletes all selected fear of a poor individual performance from the choices to indicate their greatest sources of stress. The stress sources showed little variation across sports and among athletes, non-athletes, and former athletes. Many believe that coaches and/or parents are to blame for this. A reported thirty percent of athletes blame a coach or parent for their decision to quit sports all together. This is usually due to what is called a burn out. Burnout is defined by sport psychologists as “physical/emotional exhaustion, sport devaluation, and reduced athletic accomplishment.” Burn out can occur because of many different reasons such as, excessive stress and pressure to win, feelings of entrapment, costs of the sport begin to outweigh the benefits, disempowerment of an athlete, and loss of