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Burnout In Young Adult Performing Artists, Benjamin Hyun Stocking
Burnout In Young Adult Performing Artists, Benjamin Hyun Stocking
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the experience of burnout in adolescent/young adult performing arts (i.e. a World-Class junior drum & bugle corps) at the beginning of their competitive training season. Specifically, this study took particular interest in investigating the predictive influence of psychological variables such as performance anxiety, psychological coping skills, and coping functions in predicting who was more prone to burnout as well as who returned or dropped out after the competitive season.
Data were drawn from an archive of 144 drum corps performers, representing one world class drum and bugle corps at the beginning of …