Burnout e Desporto: A atividade fisica como estrategia para lidar com a sindrome de exaustao
Burnout, or Exhaustion Syndrome, has been known since early studies that emerged about this phenomenon as a state of physical and mental exhaustion which cause is closely tied to one's professional life (Freudenberger, 1976).The objective of this dissertation was the study of the relationship between burnout and Sports. It is a study of an exploratory nature, which aims to compare the results at the level of physical activity in general, excluding federated sports and high competition, compared with levels of burnout, through the presentation of a study on the socio demographic variables.The sample is of convenience, 144 men and women between 18 and 64 years of age, professionally active in various categories. Were applied the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI GS) to collect data about the rates of burnout, and a socio demographic questionnaire to characterize the sample and their sporting habits.The questionnaires and data collection was performed online during the month of May of the current year.The results indicate that there is a relationship, eventually determinant, between levels of burnout and physical activity, and that this relationship presents variations according to socio demographic variables, that levels of burnout differ according to the type of physical activity; and show an explicit difference in the variation of levels of burnout, according to gender.Implications were drawn for the prevention and intervention process in the burnout syndrome. Key words: burnout, sports, exhaustion, physical activity.