RT Journal Article
T1 The Relationship between Motivation and Burnout in Athletes and the Mediating Role of Engagement
A1 Graña Ramos, Mar
A1 Francisco Palacios, Cristina de
A1 Arce Fernández, Constantino
K1 Motivation
K1 Burnout
K1 Engagement
K1 Athletes
AB The purpose of our research was to analyze the relationship among motivation, burnout, and engagement in sports. Five hundred athletes of both sexes from multiple sports modalities took part, with a mean age of 17.39 years (SD = 4.60). The instruments applied were as follows: Spanish versions of the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS), the Athlete Engagement Questionnaire (AEQ) and the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ). Pearson correlations showed that motivation is negatively related to burnout and positively to engagement, while burnout and engagement are inversely related to each other. Through structural equation modeling, it was shown that engagement has a mediating role between motivation and burnout. Furthermore, there are no gender differences in this relationship, although there are differences between athletes who practice individual sports and those who practice collective sports. Encouraging high levels of self-determined motivation can help to increase athletes’ degree of engagement and protect them against burnout and sport withdrawal
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26242
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26242
LA eng
NO Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(9), 4884; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094884
NO This work was supported by the following research project: Consolidación 2019 GPC GI-1456 Comportamiento Social y Psicometría Aplicada—COSOYPA, Consellería de Educación, Universidade e Formación Profesional, Xunta de Galicia (grant number: ED431B 2019/0)
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026