Impact of Burnout Syndrome in athletes: relationship between sex, age, and sport

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues,Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Hirota,Vinicius, Maffei,Willer, Ferreira,José Pedro, Verardi,Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-00862021000200636
• topic: Burnout; athletes; sport; sex; age

Abstract Burnout syndrome has a multidimensional characteristic, and there are feelings inherent to this syndrome, and it has different response due to characteristic of the athletes and their sport. The purpose of the present study was to identify burnout levels and its relationship between sex, age and type of sport. The Athletes Burnout Questionnaire (ABQ) was used to assess the prevalence of burnout in athletes and whether burnout is influenced by sex, age group, and type of sport (individual versus team sports). The ABQ was administered to 223 athletes (50 females (15,4± 4,17 years old) and 173 males (17,8±4,34 years old)) in 4 different sports modalities (swimming, gymnastics, basketball, and soccer). The results showed that between 1% and 9% of the athletes showed elevated burnout scores on these four subscales, and the hypothesis of higher prevalence of burnout in individual sports was supported someway, by athletes who had higher levels of Emotional and Physical Exhaustion when compared to those of team sports. It was also found that age did not influence burnout levels. Furthermore, only a no correlation between sex and burnout scores was found. These findings suggest that factors other than sex, and age must be considered when athletes at risk for burnout are investigated.