Open AccessDeveloping the Methodology for Studying and Assessing the Severity of Occupational Deformations of Athletes Based on an Eye Movement Analysis
Author(s) -
Valentina Barabanschikova,
A. Kovalev,
Oksana A. Klimova,
G. Menshikova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo fonda fundamentalʹnyh issledovanij. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki/vestnik rffi. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-8956
pISSN - 2587-6090
DOI - 10.22204/2587-8956-2019-097-04-103-113
Subject(s) - depersonalization , burnout , athletes , psychology , applied psychology , eye movement , clinical psychology , emotional exhaustion , medicine , physical therapy , neuroscience
The study and prediction of emergence and development of occupational deformations is one of the urgent tasks in psychology. However, existing methods are questionnaires, and their results can be distorted due to self-reports by respondents. In this regard, the aim of the study was to develop a methodology for studying and assessing the severity of occupational deformations using unbiased indicators of oculomotor activity and the burnout syndrome example.
34 athlete-skaters took part in the experiment. As stimuli, texts of negative, positive and neutral content were used. The results identified a link between the severity of burnout symptoms such as “reduction of personal achievements” and “depersonalization” with eye movement parameters. In particular, the members of the “reduction of personal achievements” group, while reading texts with negative content, tried to focus less on negative words thereby avoiding them. Thus, using the parameters of eye movements, the authors conducted an unbiased assessment of text areas, to which the subjects' attention was directed. This allowed reliably identifying the behavioural strategies for subjects who suffer from burnout syndrome.