Examination of Burnout Levels of Athletes Studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate burnout levels of athletes studying at the faculty of sports sciences. 250 students (female; 102, male; 148) who study in Ondokuz Mayıs University, at the Faculty of Sport Sciences and actively participate in sports life were included in the study. The 5-point Likert-type sports burnout scale developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and adapted to Turkish by Kelecek et al.(2016) was used to determine the burnout levels of the subjects. SPSS 22.0 program was used in the statistical analysis of the study. When the results of the study were examined, in gender, team and individual athletes status and in emotional / physical, declining sense of success in section variables, in none of the sensitization sub-dimensions no statistically significant difference was found (p>0.05). As a result, it is thought that the absence of significant difference in the levels of athletic burnout in the findings of the current research may be due to the subject groups’ actively continuing sports, studying at the same faculty and and therefore having the same intensity courses. However, in future researches, when examined with variables such as individually separation of branches, training densities, league levels they play and classes, it is thought that it may make a difference.