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How Emotional Contagion in Sports Can Make or Break Your Team's Performance
A basketball team celebrates energetically on the court, demonstrating their unity and excitement after a victorious game. Your mindset and emotional state have a ripple effect on everyone else on your team at the time emotional contagion in sports kicks in. A motivated player can boost everyone's spirits. Burnout may spread through spoken communication with teammates at practice. Emotional contagion is a psychological phenomenon where one person's emotions and related behav

Dr Paul McCarthy
Mar 107 min read
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Coach Burnout: Why the Best Coaches Are Quietly Quitting Sports
A coach sits in an empty gym, deep in thought, with a clipboard in hand as he reflects on the challenges ahead. Coach burnout affects 71% of women's team coaches and 23% of men's team coaches, who experience moderate to high emotional exhaustion . Coaching has been described as an all-consuming and demanding profession that guides people toward anxiety and loss of confidence. What's more concerning is that 80% of coaches aren't aware of work-related resources that help them c

Dr Paul McCarthy
Mar 47 min read
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