Mental health is important for competitive athletes. Among mental health issues, depression has become a serious problem. The prevalence rate of probable depression among university athletes participating in Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association-sponsored sports ranges from 15.6% to 21% (Wolanin et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2007). Athletes have increased mental health risk factors compared with nonathlete populations, which can be attributed to high training loads, tough competition, and stressful lifestyles (Gorczynski et al., 2017; Rice et al., 2016). Athletes may have trouble leading healthy competitive lives due to depressive symptoms (Lebrun et al., 2018). Furthermore, Gulliver et al. (2015) suggested that elite athletes experience a broadly comparable risk of a high prevalence of mental disorders (i.e., anxiety, depression), relative to the general population.
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