Objective of the study was to profile and analyze the emotional burnout in the national rhythmic gymnastics coaching community. Methods and structure of the study. We used for the purposes of the study the following methods: WAM (wellbeing, activity, mood) self-test system adapted by V.A. Doskin et al.; Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova [1]; and our own Emotional Burnout Profiling Questionnaire Survey in application to the rhythmic gymnastics coaches. We sampled for the survey (run in February 2020) rhythmic gymnastics coaches from St. Petersburg and Penza cities (n=28, with 23 covered by every questionnaire survey method) and split up the sample into Group 1 (n=10) and Group 2 (n=13) with the coaching experiences under and over 10 years, respectively. Results of the study and conclusions. The study found the rhythmic gymnastics coaches highly exposed to many emotional burnout triggers including not only the occupational ones but also those related to communication with the trainees` families including family pressures in non-business hours. These and other emotional burnout triggers were found to result in early emotional burnouts in the rhythmic gymnastics coaching community with many relevant negative consequences including professional regresses.
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