Abstract
Abstract Aims: This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ). Methods: Participants were five hundred and nineteen young and adult athletes who responded to the ABQ and Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2R. Data analysis was conducted through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Cronbach’s alpha, Composite reliability, average variance extracted, multigroup analysis, and Pearson’s correlation (p .70). External validity revealed a positive correlation between PEE (r=.14) and RSSA (r=.23) with somatic anxiety and a positive correlation of PEE (r=.15), RSSA (r=.30), and SD (r=.14) with cognitive anxiety. Further, all dimensions of burnout had negative correlations with the self-confidence (r=.17-.23). In the factor invariance analysis, satisfactory data were found in the model’s fit, establishing good factor loadings, variance/covariance, and residuals in both age groups (up to 18 years and over 18 years) and genders (men and women). Conclusion: It was concluded that the Brazilian version of the ABQ is satisfactory for the application of possible studies involving burnout syndrome in the Brazilian sports context in different group extracts.
Highlights
Sports participation is important for young and adult people for several reasons
The present study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ) in a sample of youth and adult athletes
The main results showed that the Brazilian version of the ABQ presented acceptable results for the structure with three factors and 15 items
Summary
Sports participation is important for young and adult people for several reasons. Firstly, sports participation is associated with higher levels of physical activity and with the maintenance of healthy weight status[1]. Preparation in high-performance sports demands a high training load in order to reach maximal performance[5]. This high stressful demand, for a prolonged period, can result in harm for the athletes, such as anxiety, depression, physical and emotional distress, and mental fatigue[6,7,8,9]. Such harms are directly linked to the occurrence of the burnout syndrome[9, 10]. This syndrome can impair sports performance and the athlete’s health, being the abandonment of the sports career one of the worsts consequences[11]
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