Gray, Julie (2009) Prevalence of Burnout and Overtraining in Non-Elite and Pre-Elite Adolescent Athletes living in Rural, Remote and Regional Areas of Australia. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
This exploratory study examined the prevalence of athlete burnout in non-elite and pre-elite adolescent athletes who live in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia. The study also sought to determine if training load and type of sport participation (team/individual/both) were related to athlete burnout and overtraining. Participants (177 males and 51 females Participants) ranged in age from 13 to 18 years (M = 15 years, SD = 1.6) and included 18 athletes who competed in individual sports, 132 athletes who completed in team sports and 75 athletes who competed in both individual and team sports. Participants were recruited from three New South Wales Regional Academies of Sport, a secondary college in North Queensland, and from the researcher’s personal networks. Participants completed a package of questionnaires and athlete burnout was measured used the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ), while overtraining symptoms were measured using the Short Overtraining Symptoms Questionnaire (SOSQ). Results revealed that 8.4% of athletes were experiencing high levels of athlete burnout across all three ABQ subscales. Training load was found to have a significant effect on sport devaluation, with lower training loads being associated with higher sport devaluation scores, while the type of sporting participation (individual, team, or both) was found to not have a significant influence upon burnout or overtraining. This study has highlighted the lack of research on adolescent burnout, and more specifically, on adolescents from rural, remote and regional areas. There is a crucial need for future research on burnout and overtraining in country adolescent athletes, to ensure that attrition of young athletes does not cut-short promising sporting careers which may in turn lower the quality of national sporting teams.
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology (Up to 30 Jun 2013) |
| Supervisors: | Andrea Lamont-Mills |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2025 00:51 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2025 00:51 |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52360 |
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