The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and burnout and whether this relationship is mediated by perceived stress, negative affect and positive affect in elite junior athletes. Participants were 233 (133 males and 100 females) adolescent athletes, ranging in age from 15 to 19 years (M = 17.50; SD = 1.08). Bivariate correlations revealed that m...

Quality of motivation, self-control competencies, as well as past performance experience influence sport participation outcomes in developing athletes. Studies have shown that junior athletes high in self-determined motivation are less prone to experience burnout, while self-control competencies help developing athletes to be conscious and deliberate in their self-regulatory efforts toward elit...

In training centers, the demonstration of high competence is essential and there is considerable emphasis placed on sporting achievement. Athlete burnout can be a consequence of such pressures and expectations. More information is needed regarding the social, environmental and individual differences in achievement-related characteristics which are relevant to the occurrence of burnout in this c...

This study analyzes eating disordered behaviors in a sample of Portuguese athletes and explores its relationship with some psychological dimensions. Two hundred and ninety nine athletes (153 male, 51.2%) practicing collective (65.2%) or individual sports (34.8%) were included. The assessment protocol included the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) (Fairburn & Beglin, 1994); the S...

Burnout has received increased research attention in recent years. During the period of 1995-2002, annually about 150 articles that concerned burnout have appeared in journals covered by PsychInfo. As evident, burnout has been a major focus of researchers' efforts. A recent review of the area of burnout (Schuafeli & Enzmann, 1998) found about 5,500 entries with burnout as a key word between 197...

BACKGROUND Although Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen, Kamarack & Mermelstein, 1983) has been validated and widely used in many domains, there is still no validation in sports by comparing athletes and non-athletes and examining related psychometric indices. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of PSS between athletes and non-athletes, and examine const...

Results A reply was received of 318 out of 664 intensivists (47.9%). Results of 272 intensivists were evaluable, 12 of whom (4.4%) were diagnosed with burnout at the time of the questionnaire. No association was found between working conditions or personal characteristics and burnout, except for the association between burnout and conflict with the hospital management and between burnout and ha...

Abstract Introduction Because of their double reality university student and athlete, varsity athletes are particularly at risk having sleep difficulties, but also depression anxiety symptoms. To this day, there is almost no data available characterizing the Canadian student-athletes, while these must often combine studies sports practice with a job to support themselves. As part larger study, ...