Lecture 4 - Burnout

Question 1

Define burnout

Answer 1

A withdrawal from sport noted by a reduced sense of accomplishment, devaluation of sport and physical and psychological exhaustion

Question 2

define Smith’s cognitive affective model

Answer 2

Follows the stress process, stressors, primary and secondary appraisal, physiological response usually tension anger depression anxiety. leading to decreased performance

Question 3

Describe Silva’s overtraining & staleness model

Answer 3

Firstly it focuses on the physiological state of training
Athletes are placed under training stress, if imposed too frequently = negative psychophysiological response which leads to plateau, leads to staleness, to over come this coaches may add demand or increase intensity which leads to overtraining and lots of negative responses, burnout then withdrawal.

Question 4

Schmidt and steins commitment based model

Answer 4

burnout has decreased rewards increased costs low satisfaction and alternatives and high investment