Savoring Sport: Connections With Athlete Passion and Burnout

Abstract

Athletes can respond to positive experiences in sport by engaging in savoring—that is, by attempting to prolong or amplify their positive feelings. In this research, the authors tested if savoring was predicted by levels of harmonious or obsessive passion for sport and if savoring was associated with symptoms of burnout. In Study 1 (n = 499), the authors found that savoring was positively associated with harmonious passion and negatively associated with obsessive passion. In addition, savoring predicted lower levels of burnout and played an indirect role in the relationship between both passion types and burnout. The authors replicated these findings in Study 2 (n = 298), with collegiate-level athletes, prospectively, over the course of a season. Overall, athletes with strong levels of harmonious passion appear to be most likely to engage in savoring, a response that may protect them from experiencing higher levels of burnout.

Losing passion: A test of the seasonal attenuation of passion (SAP) hypothesis across three longitudinal studies with athletes and sport fans.

“…The first two studies are from previously conducted research projects on the experiences of intercollegiate athletes. Although we have published several articles based on the data from both projects (Schellenberg et al, 2013(Schellenberg et al, , 2014Schellenberg, Semenchuk, et al, 2022;Schellenberg, Verner-Filion, & Gaudreau, 2022;Schellenberg, Verner-Filion, Gaudreau, & Chichekian, 2023), none of these publications have analyzed changes in passion over time.…”

Losing passion: A test of the seasonal attenuation of passion (SAP) hypothesis across three longitudinal studies with athletes and sport fans

“…The first two studies are from previously-conducted research projects on the experiences of intercollegiate athletes. Although we have published several articles based on the data from both projects (Schellenberg et al, 2013;Schellenberg et al, 2014;Schellenberg, Semenchuk et al, 2022;Schellenberg, Verner-Filion, & Gaudreau, 2022;Schellenberg et al, in press) Our goal in each study was to recruit as many participants as possible, knowing that all participants needed to be recruited within a limited timeframe near the start of the sport seasons.…”

Емоційне Вигорання У Кваліфікованих Спортсменок І Тренерів У Черліденгу

“…Інші дослідження показали, що спортсмени можуть реагувати на позитивний досвід у спорті посиленням насолоди (savoring sport), тобто намагатися продовжити або посилити свої позитивні почуття, що певним чином може слугувати запобіжником формування у них синдрому емоційного вигорання [17].…”