The relationship between competitive anxiety and athlete burnout in college athlete: the mediating roles of competence and autonomy

Autor: Linjie Yang, Zhiwen Zhang, Jinrui Zhang, Arsaythamby Veloo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: BMC Psychology, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2050-7283
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-024-01888-2
Popis: Abstract Background In the cognitive-affective model of athlete burnout, anxiety is a key physiological response to stress that influences the development of burnout in athletes. Despite its importance, there has been little research on the relationship between competitive anxiety and athlete burnout, particularly regarding the mediating mechanisms. This study aimed to explore the relationship between competitive anxiety and athlete burnout, with a focus on the mediating role of general need satisfaction from self-determination theory. Methods The current study employed a cross-sectional design involving 618 college athletes (354 females, mean age 20.57 years), comprising 303 participants in individual sports and 315 in team sports. These participants completed the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2), the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ), and the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Scale in General (BPNSS-G) online. Subsequently, correlation, regression, and mediation analyses were conducted using SPSS and JASP to examine the relationships between the variables. Results Regression results indicated that somatic anxiety (beta = 0.116, t = 2.21, p = 0.028) and concentration disruption (beta = 0.259, t = 5.35, p
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