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French athletes at the Paris Olympics will be offered better protection for their mental health, with priority given to curbing online harassment and cyberbullying. France’s Sports Minister ...
In the United States each year, 3.5 million sports participants are injured, causing a short or long term disruption from sport. Injured athletes may exhibit high rates of depression and anxiety, followed by low rates of self-esteem directly following an injury and throughout the duration of recovery and return to play. [17]
Early sports specialization frequently puts the youth athlete at risk for physical and mental burnout, which worsens performance. [11] This can result in a vicious circle , in which the stressed athlete performs poorly, overtrains, feels more stressed, performs worse, and may even end up injured.
Athletes who experience burnout may have different contributing factors, but the more frequent reasons include perfectionism, boredom, injuries, excessive pressure, and overtraining. [68] Burnout is studied in many different athletic populations (e.g., coaches), but it is a major problem in youth sports and contributes to withdrawal from sport.
A 2000 study showed the relationship between participation in sports and health-related behaviors in US youth athletes. [16] Both boys and girls were more likely to eat fruits and vegetables and less likely to engage in smoking and illicit drug-taking. There is a risk of injury for athletes of all ages when participating in sports.
It has since held a number of symposia, and published recommendations for treating burnout. [ 53 ] In 2015, French psychologist Renzo Bianchi and his colleagues provided a literature review on the burnout–depression overlap (based on 92 studies) and concluded that the studies fail to prove consistently the nosological distinctiveness of the ...
The Multi-dimensional Theory of Anxiety [7] is based on the distinction between somatic and cognitive anxiety. The theory predicts that a negative, linear relationship between somatic and cognitive anxiety, an Inverted-U relationship between somatic anxiety and performance, and that somatic anxiety declines once performance begins although cognitive anxiety may remain high, if confidence is low.
A study conducted by Amelia Gulliver and Helen Christensen showed that 1 in 5 elite athletes suffered depressive symptoms. [6] Playing elite sports is a great challenge emotionally, mentally as well as physically, [7] some players can cope with all of these pressures while others cannot handle it and therefore suffer from a lack of mental health.