Collegiate Sport Cultures: Mental Health within Student-Athletes
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
18-5-2020
Abstract
Various collegiate sport cultures across the nation have created a stigma around mental health creating a toxic sports environment for interdependent and dependent sport teams. Hence, creating pressure on collegiate student-athletes while enduring high expectations of carrying the role of a full-time elite studentathlete, in which can result in emotional stressors, depression, anxiety and many risk factors that can become severe on an athletes mental and physical health as a college student. Throughout many different institutions, the development of mental health resources has grown but are not universal. While some institutions seem to lack resources for student-athletes, a unique population have turned to the media for motivation and influence from professional or other collegiate athletes in the same routine as them. The author presents finding balance in athletic success as a college student while providing effective mental health tools through social media and outreach as a resource for student-athletes mental health.
Recommended Citation
Kafovalu, Jaida-Keleni, "Collegiate Sport Cultures: Mental Health within Student-Athletes" (2020). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 121.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/121
Department/Program
Sociology
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/2020/04/collegiate-sport-cultures-mental-health-within-student-athletes/
Collegiate Sport Cultures: Mental Health within Student-Athletes
Ellensburg
Various collegiate sport cultures across the nation have created a stigma around mental health creating a toxic sports environment for interdependent and dependent sport teams. Hence, creating pressure on collegiate student-athletes while enduring high expectations of carrying the role of a full-time elite studentathlete, in which can result in emotional stressors, depression, anxiety and many risk factors that can become severe on an athletes mental and physical health as a college student. Throughout many different institutions, the development of mental health resources has grown but are not universal. While some institutions seem to lack resources for student-athletes, a unique population have turned to the media for motivation and influence from professional or other collegiate athletes in the same routine as them. The author presents finding balance in athletic success as a college student while providing effective mental health tools through social media and outreach as a resource for student-athletes mental health.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/121
Faculty Mentor(s)
Connie Robinson