Snežana Lazarević, Ana Krstić, Maja Sobek

Mobbing, as a very widespread negative social phenomenon, represents one of the key stresses of the working environment. The aim of this research is to define the existence of certain types of mobbing in sports organizations, i.e. in their production parts whose focus is on the most critical human resource- athletes of all categories. By using random sample of sports clubs and by specially designed questionnaire, athletes as examinees (N=250) have given their opinion about the types of maltreatment, harassment and pressure in their closest environment. The results have confirmed the existence of some types of mobbing for which it is assumed to be able to significantly affect the health and development of young athletes (the pressure to raise endurance during trainings, which can affect the health of an athlete, sexual harassment of female athletes and the sense of psychophysical problems as a consequence of these types of behaviour

Keywords: types of mobbing, health, athletes, gender

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