Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, cilt.9, sa.9, ss.114-126, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of the present study is to examine the burnout level of athletes who are active in individual and team sports according to some of their sportive and demographic characteristics. As sportive qualities, the active sports branch of the participants, the number of weekly training days, the year of active sports and the level of success in sports were taken into consideration while age, gender and educational background were taken as independent variables in terms of demography. The data were collected on a voluntary basis from 168 athletes actively involved in 12 different branches. 116 of the participants are individual and 52 of them are team sports athletes registered to Erzincan Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate and Sportsman Training Center. The Athlete Burnout Questionnaire was used to determine the level of athlete's burnout, which was developed by Raedeke and Smith (2001) and adapted to the Turkish language by Kelecek, Kara, Kazak Cetinkalp and Cook (2016). The questionnaire, consisting of 13 items, had three sub-dimensions: Physical-Emotional Exhaustion (PEE), Sport Devaluation (SD) and Reduced Sense of Accomplishment (RSA). In the current practice, the internal consistency coefficient calculated for the entire scale was.86. The internal consistency coefficients calculated for the sub-dimensions were.86 for (PEE), .50 for (RSA) and.71 for (SD). Since the internal consistency coefficient calculated for the (RSA) sub-dimension was low, it was not included in the analysis and evaluations. Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA tests were used for data analysis. It was found that active athletes' total scores of (PEE), (SD) in Athlete burnout questionnaire (ABQ) were lower in individual sports and women, and were significantly different according to age groups and number of weekly training days. In addition, it was determined that (SD) and ABQ scores in terms of educational background and (PEE) and ABQ scores in terms of active sports year, (PEE) and (SD) scores in terms of level of accomplishment differed significantly. Based on these results, some suggestions were given.