The Effect Of Social Support On Athlete Burnout

In the process of ahletes' career,enormous physical and metal burden generated by continuous stress will lead to burnout if they cope inappropriately.Athlete burnout not only seriously effect physical and mental health,but also result that the interest of the sports lossed and the activety of the train reduced,and the most srious one is that they end their career earlier.Many study show that most athletes have ever experienced burnout in the process of their career,which is one of the most important factor which effect the health and the career.Therefore,it is vital to solve the issue of athlete burnout.To discover the factor and formation mechanism of athlete burnout are beneficial to know the law of development of athlete burnout,which will provide theoretical foundation for.avoiding and reliecing it efficeincly.In order to deeply research and discuss the formation mechanism of athlete burnout,the element of this study include social support,hope(element of positive psychology)and coping through the ways of inside and outside.To investigate the effect of athletes'social support on burnout,as well as the serious mediating effect of hope and coping,483 Chinese athletes were recruited to complete self-report questionnaires,which include Perceived Available Support in Sport Questionnaire,Trait Hope Scale,Coping Inventory and Athlete Burnout Questionnaire for Competitive Sport.The results are as following:1)Athlete burnout,emotional/physical exhaustion and sport devaluation didn't existed differences in gender,age,sports life and technical grade;however,a reduced sense of accomplishment showed significantly differcence in the grade,but in gender,age and sports life;2)Perceived social support,hope and task-oriented coping was significantly negative correlated to burnout,but distraction-oriented coping and disengagement-oriented coping was signi ficantly positive correlated to it;3)Perceived social support can not only direct effects on athlete burnout,but also indirect effects on athlete burnout via the mediation of hope and coping.To sum up,the serial mediated modle constructed by this study can appropriately explain and discover the formation mechanism of athlete burnout.In addition,this study also put forward a series of specific measures to avoid and relieve athlete burnout on the basis of this study.The results indicated that athlete burnout can be relieved and inhibited by improving athletes'social support,promoting athletes' hope and using the strategy of task-oriented coping insteed of distraction-oriented coping and disengagement-oriented coping.