Ballgames and burnout (original) (raw)

2015, Journal of physical education and sport

IntroductionGames and Sports are the medium whereby children get ample opportunities to develop their potentiality (Cote & Fraser-Thomas, 2007). There are varieties of reasons for children to participate in sports (Gould & Petlichkoff, 1988). The reasons such as enhancing well balanced physiological, psychological and sociological status as well as developing athletic talent are some of the contributing factors (Gould & Carson, 2004). As burnout is a highly prevalent factor for adolescent athletes, it arrests with attention and becomes an important part of discussion among researchers from the field of sports psychology. In India, sports is still an unsystematic discipline and rarely any research work has conducted before in this area. It has been seen that players are tremendously affected by various means such as lack of facility, cooperation from federation, coaching facility, parental support, etc. which ultimately could become potential antecedents for burnout to develop. This ...

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