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The Quantity and Quality of Anxiety Are Mediating Variables between Motivation, Burnout and Fear of Failing in Sport

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  • Elisa I. Sánchez-Romero

    (Department of Social, Legal and Business Sciences, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Murcia, Spain)

  • Francisco J. Ponseti Verdaguer

    (Research Group of Sports Sciences (GICAFE), Department of Pedagogy, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain)

  • Jaume Cantallops Ramón

    (Research Group of Sports Sciences (GICAFE), Department of Pedagogy, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain)

  • Alejandro García-Mas

    (Research Group of Sports Sciences (GICAFE), Department of Pedagogy, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain)

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect mediated by self-determined motivation on an athlete’s burnout, anxiety and fear of failure. To this end, the sample group consisting of 235 semi-professional yachtsmen and women was asked to answer four questionnaires which set out to assess each of the study’s variables: Behavioural Regulation in Sport Questionnaire, Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory, Sport Anxiety Scale-2 and Athlete Burnout Questionnaire. The ex-post facto research was designed to analyse a single group based on structural equation modelling (SEM) between the constructs under analysis. The results illustrate that behavioural regulation could be used to positively predict burnout and fear of failure mediated by sport anxiety. Moreover, behavioural regulation has a significant, positive and moderate bearing on burnout and is wholly mediated by sport anxiety. It concludes by underscoring the point that there is no relationship either between behavioural regulation and burnout or between behavioural regulation and fear of failure, unless the athlete in question experiences anxiety.

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  • Elisa I. Sánchez-Romero & Francisco J. Ponseti Verdaguer & Jaume Cantallops Ramón & Alejandro García-Mas, 2021. "The Quantity and Quality of Anxiety Are Mediating Variables between Motivation, Burnout and Fear of Failing in Sport," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(23), pages 1-15, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:23:p:12343-:d:686702
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    1. Murat Yıldırım & Ömer Kaynar & Francesco Chirico & Nicola Magnavita, 2023. "Resilience and Extrinsic Motivation as Mediators in the Relationship between Fear of Failure and Burnout," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(10), pages 1-12, May.

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