Fan Fenghui, Chen Jinyu, Chen Yunting, Li Bing, Guo Liya, Shi Yang, Yang Feng, Yang Qinjun, Yang Longfei, Ding Cody, Shi Huiying
Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Virtual Laboratory of Sports and Health, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 9;13:1104143. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1104143. eCollection 2022.
Athlete burnout has many potential negative effects on athletes' sporting performance and careers. Maintaining and promoting the coach-athlete relationship to meet athletes' basic psychological needs is one way to reduce burnout. Existing studies of the correlation between coach-athlete relationships and athlete burnout have mainly focused on the coaches' leadership style, with little attention given to relationship-maintenance strategies and the mechanism of athlete burnout from the athletes' perspective.
Using an online survey of 256 adolescent athletes, we explore the relationship between relationship-maintenance strategies and athlete burnout, including the potential mediating effects of the coach-athlete relationship and basic psychological needs satisfaction.
(1) Athletes' relationship-maintenance strategies negatively predicted athlete burnout. (2) Besides the direct effect, we found evidence to support three mediation paths: (a) the coach-athlete relationship, (b) basic psychological needs satisfaction, and (c) both as serial mediators.
These findings enhance understanding of the mechanism of athlete burnout, demonstrating the influence of factors beyond the coach's role. The study also provides a theoretical basis for practical intervention by coaches, athletes, and sports organizations to reduce athlete burnout by focusing on athletes' perspectives.
运动员倦怠对运动员的运动表现和职业生涯有许多潜在的负面影响。维持和促进教练与运动员的关系以满足运动员的基本心理需求是减少倦怠的一种方法。现有的关于教练与运动员关系和运动员倦怠之间相关性的研究主要集中在教练的领导风格上，很少从运动员的角度关注关系维持策略和运动员倦怠的机制。
通过对256名青少年运动员进行在线调查，我们探讨了关系维持策略与运动员倦怠之间的关系，包括教练与运动员关系和基本心理需求满足的潜在中介作用。
（1）运动员的关系维持策略对运动员倦怠有负向预测作用。（2）除了直接效应外，我们还发现有证据支持三条中介路径：（a）教练与运动员关系，（b）基本心理需求满足，以及（c）两者作为连续中介。
这些发现增进了对运动员倦怠机制的理解，证明了教练角色之外因素的影响。该研究还为教练、运动员和体育组织通过关注运动员的角度来减少运动员倦怠的实际干预提供了理论基础。
