Abstract
*rd , 2013; revised August 21 st , 2013; accepted September 16 th , 2013 Copyright © 2013 Rosendo Berengui et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between optimism and burnout in the context of athletic competition. The sample was composed of 227 athletes that competed in wrestling at Spain’s national level. For the assessment of constructs, the Spanish version by Otero et al. (1998) of the Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) was utilized, as well as the Inventario de Burnout para Deportistas (IBD), which was an adaptation for athletic populations by Garces de Los Fayos (1999) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (Maslach & Jackson, 1981). The results demonstrate a relationship between optimism and the three dimensions of burnout, in which the athletes who are more optimistic demonstrate less emotional exhaustion, less depersonalization, and a greater perception of personal accomplishment in their athletic performance.
Highlights
Sport psychology studies, apart from other things; interpret the relationship between psychological variables, performance and health (Cote, Baker, & Abernethy, 2003; Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2002; López-López, Jaenes-Sánchez, & CárdenasVélez, 2013)
Research studies focused on the context of physical activity and sport are much more scarce and the available references indicate a clear relationship between burnout and optimism, as we show later in this paper
It should be pointed out that 84 athletes, 37% of the total, presented some of the characteristics of burnout proposed by Garcés de Los Fayos (1999); that is, higher than 66% in Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization and below 33% in Reduced Efficacy
Summary
Apart from other things; interpret the relationship between psychological variables, performance and health (Cote, Baker, & Abernethy, 2003; Durand-Bush & Salmela, 2002; López-López, Jaenes-Sánchez, & CárdenasVélez, 2013). Studies of personality and sport seek age differences or even the influence of a profile on athletic performance (Ruiz & García, 2013). These two lines of consolidated research in sport psychology are related to some aspects of the personality such us the importance of optimism and the appearance of burnout syndrome. These two aspects have been recurrent observed in both, from athletes and in different professionals working in the sport environment (De la Vega, Ruiz, Rivera, & Ortín, 2012, García & Díaz, 2010; Garcés de los Fayos, Ortín, & Carlin, 2010). Research studies focused on the context of physical activity and sport are much more scarce and the available references indicate a clear relationship between burnout and optimism, as we show later in this paper
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