Overtraining Syndrome and Burnout
Mindfulness and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy of Injured Athletes Returning to Sports: The Mediating Role of Competitive State Anxiety and Athlete Burnout.
Burnout can have profound mutual effects on athletes’ health and performance. The mental issues occur more often in athletes who overtrain, such as preparing for Olympic Games. Being under tremendous pressure to become champions and obtain gold medals.
Excessive and prolonged stress can often cause athletes to develop emotional, physical, mental anxiety and exhaustion in their performance and everyday life.
Sports psychologists teach cognitive and behavioral strategies to help athletes improve in:
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experience
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performance
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mental health
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motivation
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stress management
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anxiety
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injury rehabilitation
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team building
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burnout prevention
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career changes
A study demonstrated that mindfulness and concentration can improve regulatory emotional self-efficacy in injured athletes. Who is returning to sports by reducing a competitive state of anxiety and burnout
(Tang et al., 2022).
References
Mindfulness and Athlete Burnout: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis study indicated that there’s evidence supporting a negative association between mindfulness and athlete burnout.
Mindfulness had the strongest association with emotional/physical exhaustion.
Results of intervention and qualitative research generally suggested that MBIs might be effective in reducing levels of global burnout and reduced sense of accomplishment.
Empirical studies suggest that mindfulness may prevent burnout by adjusting athletes’ effects and minimizing the influences of stressors and negative factors on burnout.
Further investigations are needed to confirm these possible mechanisms.
Athletic trainers and coaches should be aware of current sleep recommendations for pediatric and adolescent athletes. Professionals should observe not only the physical but also the psychological responses of individual athletes to changes in training, volume, and intensity ( Zou et al., 2019).
The Psychosocial Implications of Sport Specialization in Pediatric Athletes
It is important to be aware of the possible diagnosis of burnout in young athletes who display vague symptoms and a decrease in academic performance.
Sport specialization often requires increased training hours and may predispose young athletes to the following;
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social isolation
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poor academics
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increased anxiety
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greater stress
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inadequate sleep
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decreased family time
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burnout
Sport specialization frequently introduces multiple stressors that could be expected to adversely affect mental health and function in young athletes and may increase the risk for burnout.
This may be confounded by altered sleep duration and quality, increased drive for elite status, and perfectionist personality types.
Results show that mindfulness and being conscious have a significant effect on the competitive state of anxiety and burnout in athletes, such that after strengthening the mindfulness intervention, athletes’ competitive state of anxiety and burnout decreased, and regulatory emotional self-confidence increased.
Although early sport specialization is believed to be a success for young athletes’ athletic careers, current evidence suggests that performing multiple sports at early ages may result in greater adult success in sports (Brenner et al., 2019).
References
Mindfulness and Athlete Burnout: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Zou, L., Yeung, A., Li, C., Wei, G. X., Chen, K. W., Kinser, P. A., & Chan, J. S. (2019). Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Physical Symptoms in People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of psychosomatic research, 116, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2018.12.014
Mindfulness and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy of Injured Athletes Returning to Sports: The Mediating Role of Competitive State Anxiety and Athlete Burnout.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11702; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811702
Received: 27 August 2022 / Revised: 13 September 2022 / Accepted: 14 September 2022 / Published: 16 September 2022
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/18/11702
Tang, Yiwei, et al. "Mindfulness and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy of Injured Athletes Returning to Sports: The Mediating Role of Competitive State Anxiety and Athlete Burnout." International Journal of environmental research and public health 19.18 (2022): 11702. Web.
The Psychosocial Implications of Sport Specialization in Pediatric Athletes
Brenner, Joel S, MD, MPH; LaBotz, Michele, MD; Sugimoto, Dai, PhD, ATC; Stracciolini, Andrea, MD, FAAP, FACSM. Journal of Athletic Training; Dallas Vol. 54, Iss. 10, (Oct 2019): 1021-1029. DOI:10.4085/1062-6050-394-18