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    the Examination of the Relationship Between Disc Profile Scores and Women Collegiate Coaches’ Burnout Scores
    (2020-05) Arbeiter, McKenzie
    Coaching is a career fueled by competitions and high emotions, which makes it at risk for burnout, especially for women coaches. With the percentage of women coaching women at the NCAA D1 Collegiate level declining from 90% to 40% since the passage of Title IX (LaVoi, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018) and the importance of women coached by women, it is imperative to explore the barriers these women face (Lockwood, 2009). Burnout is an individual factor listed in the individual level of the Ecological Intersectional Model (EIM) of Barriers and Supports for Women Coaches. As reflected in the burnout literature, coaches report moderate to high levels of burnout (Kelley, 1994; Kelley & Gill, 1993). There is a need to find ways to prevent and reduce the prevalence of burnout. Burnout is a factor that contributes to high coach turnover rates, therefore reducing the prevalence of burnout may help retain women coaches in sport. Both external factors and internal factors have been shown to influence burnout. Those in helping careers, like sport coaches, tend to exhibit higher levels of burnout (Dixon & Bruening, 2005), and sport coaching is a social-relational endeavor conducted in a context of high emotion and zero-sum competition. Literature exists which examines the relationship between individual factors and burnout using five factor dimension personality tests, like the Big Five, in careers susceptible to burnout. However, no researchers have used a similar test designed specifically for athletes and coaches. In this research I aim to explore the relationship between individual factors and burnout in women collegiate coaches by using the CoachDISC by Athlete Assessments. This study used pre-existing subset of data from a larger project of NCAA women coaches who were surveyed prior to attending a women-focused educational program.