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

Elisa I. Sánchez-Romero, Francisco J. Ponseti Verdaguer, Jaume Cantallops Ramón and Alejandro García-Mas
Additional contact information
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

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-15

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.

Keywords: behavioural regulation; anxiety; burnout; self-determined motivation; fear of failure; athletes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/23/12343/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/23/12343/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:23:p:12343-:d:686702

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().