the relationship of perception of peer motivational climate, stress and weekly training with burnout in elite junior athletes

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship of the perception of the peer motivational climate, stress and the weekly training with burnout in junior elite athletes of kerman province. the statistical population consisted of 120 male elite athletes from kerman province from individual and team sports (table tennis, karate, taekwondo, badminton, cycling, handball, volleyball, basketball, football) who continuously trained at kerman championship gym in 1391 with the age range of 15–19 years and at least 4 years of experience of participating in a sport field with medals in iran championships. 92 athletes were randomly selected using cochran formula. to collect data, peer motivational climate questionnaire (ntoumanis and vazou, 2005), athletes' burnout questionnaire (raedeke and smith, 2001) and perceived stress scale (cohen et al., 1983) were used. finally, personal demographic forms were used to determine the weekly training hours, acquired positions, the duration of activity, age and sport field. to analyze the data, pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression, scatter plot and independent t test were used. the results showed a negative and significant relationship between all peer motivational climate components (except for intra-team conflict) and all burnout components (p