serious sport injury, motivation and burnout: can self-determined motivation predict burnout in elite handball players?

Passion and burnout in elite junior soccer players: The mediating role of self-determined motivation

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between forms of passion (harmonious and obsessive; Vallerand et al., 2003) and athlete burnout, and whether these relationships are mediated by self-determined motivation. The proposed model posited that because harmonious passion originates from an authentic self, it will be positively associated with self-determined regulat...

Athlete burnout in elite sport: a self-determination perspective.

Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) as the theoretical framework, we examined potential antecedents of athlete burnout in 201 elite Canadian athletes (121 females, 80 males; mean age 22.9 years). Employing a cross-sectional design, our primary aims were to investigate the relationships between behavioural regulations and athlete burnout and to examine whether self-determined mot...

Rekindling Police Burnout: Implications for the Motivation

A qualitative research design was utilized to address the issue of police burnout as described in the pertinent literature. The goals of the study were to determine the causes of burnout among a sample of recently retired or separated police officers and what could be done to alleviate those feelings. Data gleaned from respondents produced three common themes: benefits of higher education (grad...

Self-determined motivation in rehabilitating professional rugby union players

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to explore the views of professional rugby union players during the early rehabilitation, late rehabilitation and return to play stages, following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. METHODS A qualitative dominant, mixed methodological approach was utilized with five players who had suffered an ACL injury requiring reconstructive surgery. A lon...

Perfectionism and Athlete Burnout in Junior Elite Athletes: The Mediating Role of Motivation Regulations

the relationship between sport motivation and athletic burnout in male soccer players participating in the 12th universiade

the aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sport motivation and athletic burnout in male soccer players participating in the 12th universiade in iran. the research method was descriptive/correlational method. 160 players who were members of soccer teams of universities completed these 2 questionnaires: 1- sport motivation scale (sms) by pelletier et al. (1995) with 24 items ...