Study On The Relationship Among Stress, Self-Efficacy, And Burnout Of Volleyball Players

As a negative production of training and competition, burnout is more and more pervasive to athletes. It imperils athletes' performance and health. This thesis investigated volleyball players' stress, burnout, and self-efficacy, discussed and validated their relationship. In methods of literature study, questionnaire, survey, and mathematical statistics, the author investigated 232 volleyball players in Fujian provincial team and Jiangsu provincial team. The results are:1) Stress differentia of volleyball players is unapparent between different genders and main players or not. It varies prominent between second-grade and third-grade players. 2) Self-efficacy differentia of volleyball players is unapparent between different genders. It varies prominent between main players or not, second-grade and third-grade players. 3) Burnout of volleyball players varies distinctly among different genders, second-grade and third grade players. It is unapparent between main players and relief players. 4) Stress of volleyball players correlated positively with their burnout, and negatively with their self-efficacy. Burnout correlated positively with stress, negatively with self-efficacy. 5) Stress, self-efficacy and burnout relate among each other closely. Stress affects burnout directly. It can also affected indirectly through self-efficacy. Stress affected burnout directly with path coefficient 0.41. Stress affected self-efficacy with path coefficient -0.13.