Are adolescent elite athletes less psychologically distressed than controls? A cross-sectional study of 966 Norwegian adolescents Mental stresses to teens and groups with other psychic problems such as eating disorders. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of mental stress in young competitive sports experts and age-appropriate controls and whether prevalence Perfectionism and eating disorders are due.For this cross-sectional study, first semester came into question from all Norwegian top sports schools (n = 711) and 500 students from randomly selected ordinary grammar schools.A total of 611 athletes and 355 students as controls delivered self-report data on mental stress, perfectionism and esprobyses (body detachment and one urge for leanness) as well as their physical training / activity. A significantly higher proportion of controls was achieved over the cutoff point for pronounced mental stress. Physical activity, which was about the recommended values for this age group, a psychological burden on the controls predicted, while the opposite was found in the elite athlete sample. In both samples, perfectionist concerns said, i. Worry about mistakes, a general mental stress advance. Under the competitors, however, perfectionist concerns were particularly associated with clinically significant mental stress.In addition, the influence of eating disorders was negligible.
The results of this study underline the need to align the maladaptive, perfectionist concerns in order to prevent mental stress in young athletes as well as in their peculiar non-athletes. The whole work can be found under http://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=39000