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VOL. 8, ISSUE 4 (2023)
Sources and symptoms of burn-out in professional players in India
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Dr. Amit Chhikara
Abstract

The paper aims at bringing the most important sources and symptoms of burn-out of professional players in India taking into view, based on conducting research related to the study of the level of feeling of psychological burnout. These will be discussed follows: First- reasons 1. Self reasons, 2. Social reasons 3. Professional reasons of the professional players in India, related to sporting environment in which professional player lives and Second- Psychological burnout symptoms. The psychological burnout symptoms by professional players in the presence o psychological symptoms resulting in emotional stress, feeling dullness, feeling of non-achievement and behavioral symptoms such as: declination of athletic performance, continuous absence of training, cognitive symptoms represented in weak mental Skills, including concentration decline, weak self-confidence. Regarding physiological symptoms, they include physical pains, rise in blood pressure, extreme fatigue, loosing enthusiasm and activity, and general weakness in body. Such symptoms subsequently may lead into many psychological problems, such as introversion, anxiety, fear and lack of motivation, which would negatively reflect on the player’s character, health, his partner players, and the club or state he plays.

The concept of Burn-out: Maslash (1997) defines bum-out as: the psychological symptoms represented in emotional psychological exhaustion and developing negative trends towards work, in addition to losing care for the persons found in work environment. The person feels emotional fatigue and exhaustion that makes him lose the feeling of achievement and generates in him negative trends towards the other persons. Consequently, the player loses his sympathy towards the others. Maslash also describes burn-out as a negative individual emotional experience that leads to experiencing a severe state of exhausting the person's efforts on the physical, emotional and cognitive levels.

Lazarus (1984) defines it as follows: a state of exhaustion that results from the effect of fatigue and continuous and excessive requirements imposed on the persons in a manner that exceeds their energies and professional abilities.

Awambor (1996) [5] defines burn-out as: the inability of adapt to the pressures resulting from the work requirements and personal life.
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Pages:42-43
How to cite this article:
Dr. Amit Chhikara "Sources and symptoms of burn-out in professional players in India". International Journal of Yoga, Physiotherapy and Physical Education, Vol 8, Issue 4, 2023, Pages 42-43
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