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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2023 in the subject Health - Sports science, , language: English, abstract: This study aims to determine the causes of stress and burnout among athletic training students and athletic trainers and how these problems affect their professional careers. Besides, the study seeks to establish the level of burnout among athletic training students. Additionally, the study aims to establish the solution for the issues identified and recommends strategies that athletic training programs should implement to mitigate stress and burnout. Role strain, work-family conflict, and professional socialization are the leading cause of stress and burnout among athletic training students. Task incongruence, role conflict, ambiguity, overload, and incompetency were the identified aspects of strain in ATs. The ambiguity in the athletic training profession is connected to insufficient specificity, while role conflict occurs in a situation where an individual is assigned to multiple roles at the same time. In essence, an individual's values and beliefs may not be compatible with professional job demands, causing role incongruence (the situation where description does not align with an individual's personality). Nineteen articles deeply examine the effect of role strain in athletic training students' profession. Work-family conflict is the disturbance emanating from the profession's family responsibilities, impacting their professional accomplishment. Fourteen researchers examined this problem extensively in the reviewed research articles, and it was determined to be a potential cause of burnout among athletic training students. High travel demands and long working hours are the two causes of work-family conflicts identified in the study. Besides, delayed or rescheduled games were determined to contribute to work-family conflict among the athletic trainers. The study found professional socialization and burnout among athletic training students closely related. Role revolution, gaining stability, formal preparation, envisioning the role, and organizational entry are the five essential phases of professional specialization in sports medicine.
Certified athletic trainers (ATC) have a variety of job responsibilities which revolve around the delivery of health care services to athletes as well as physically active individuals. Studies related to stress and burnout among certified athleic trainers working at the collegiate setting of athletic training are growing. Many of the stressors that certified athletic trainers experience are due to the demands of varying athletic schedules, unrealistic expectations of sport coverage by coaches, parents and athletes, as well as the inherent competitiveness of athletics. Since certified athletic trainers spend a considerable amount of their time interacting with athletes and coaches, their perception of stressors can be a critical part in their definition of stress. Without intentional intervention, long term stress can lead to burnout. Stress and burnout will directly impact the quality of health care services that are provided by a certified athletic trainer.
ABSTRACT: Using mixed-methods and purposeful sampling procedures, four ATCs working in the high school setting were identified as being in phase V or VI of burnout and four were identified as being occupationally engaged. All eight individuals were then interviewed on three separate occasions using a semi-structured approach. A grounded theory analysis was then conducted to identify the sources of stress, challenges and coping responses of these individuals and how their unique stressors changed and evolved over time. Burned out individuals listed 33 distinct stressors, 29 challenges and 46 coping strategies. Occupationally engaged individuals listed 19 stressors, 21 challenges and 40 coping strategies. Overall the athletic trainers in this sample coped consistently with their stressors with few mismatches with the controllability of the stressor and the coping strategy.
Author's abstract: Introduction: Research has found that 30% of Athletic Trainers (ATs) experience burnout in their career. Limited literature has found the effects of burnout on ATs in the secondary school setting, though they account for 18% of the population. Objective: The aim of this investigation was to determine the relationship between burnout and personality traits in secondary school ATs. Methods: Participants included 143 ATs working in the secondary school setting and members of National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA). The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to measure level of burnout. The Big Five Inventory (BFI) was used to measure one's type of personality traits. After IRB approval, the NATA was contacted to send out emails over an 8 week period. Data Analysis: Cronbach's alpha was calculated for the BFI and MBI constructs. Likert responses for the burnout scale were averaged. Pearson correlation coefficients were estimated to test the correlation of MBI and BFI. Utilizing Spearman's Rho, correlations were run to examine associations among marital status, age, race, ethnicity, and gender with BFI and MBI. Three stepwise regressions were run to determine the contributions of significant individual factors on the constructs of burnout. Results: Neuroticism was positively correlated with emotional exhaustion (EE) and depersonalization (DP), but not with personal accomplishment (PA). Conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extraversion are negatively correlated with EE. Agreeableness and conscientiousness were negatively correlated with DP. None of the personality traits were negatively correlated with PA and openness does not correlate with burnout. Further, regression analyses confirmed that personality traits predicted EE, DP, and PA. Conclusion: Our results highlight the existence of moderate levels of burnout in ATs employed in the secondary school setting. Further, participants who scored high with the BFI in extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness have higher levels of EE and DP. In addition, individuals who scored high on the personality construct of neuroticism have a positive correlation with EE and DP. While it is important to have an understanding of the individual factors that may lead to burnout, it is also important to note that burnout is a multifaceted issue.
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