Six-month stability of individual differences in sports coaches’ burnout, self-compassion and social support

Ackeret, Nadja; Röthlin, Philipp; Allemand, Mathias; Krieger, Tobias; Berger, Thomas; Znoj, Hansjörg; Kenttä, Göran; Birrer, Daniel; Horvath, Stephan

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102207

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“…To our knowledge, ours is one of the few studies to examine the influence of alexithymia on learning burnout for children and adolescents. Although previous studies have covered a wide range of subjects, including high school students, young adults, and practitioners, most have only explored the direct association between the two variables (Ackeret et al, 2022; Gu et al, 2017; Lyvers et al, 2020). In contrast, this research constructed a mediation model to explore the internal mechanism by which alexithymia is associated with learning burnout, yielding practical implications for the prevention and intervention.…”

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“…Abdollahi et al, 2021;Atkinson et al, 2017;Hashem & Zeinoun, 2020;Ponkosonsirilert et al, 2020;Prudenzi et al, 2022). A longitudinal study examined the six-month stability of burnout, self-compassion, and social support among sports coaches and found that self-compassion negatively predicted burnout (Ackeret et al, 2022). It has been confirmed that self-compassion is promising in reducing stress (Bluth et al, 2015) and the potential escalation of stress into burnout (Sorkkila et al, 2019).…”

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Self-compassion mediates the relationship between alexithymia and learning burnout in Chinese primary and secondary school students: A cross-sectional study

Zhang

Wang

2023

School Psychology International

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Alexithymia has an important effect on learning burnout; however, the underlying mechanism of this relation remains unclear. This study aims to examine why alexithymia is related to increased learning burnout. Here, we investigated associations between alexithymia and learning burnout, as well as the potential mediating role of self-compassion in a sample of 466 Chinese children and adolescents from primary and secondary schools. Mediation analysis showed that higher alexithymia was significantly associated with greater learning burnout, and this relationship was mediated by self-compassion. Findings suggest that promoting self-compassion may mitigate the adverse effects of alexithymia on learning burnout.

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Self-compassion mediates the relationship between alexithymia and learning burnout in Chinese primary and secondary school students: A cross-sectional study

Zhang

Wang

2023

School Psychology International

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“…Reporting standards are followed throughout, including clear reports of the data set, sample selection, any exclusions and measure used. Data and analyses code are available at DRYAD (Ackeret et al, 2023). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.…”

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Positive mental health among sports coaches: A 6-month longitudinal study.

Ackeret,

Röthlin,

Horvath

et al. 2024

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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Positive mental health (PMH) is important for sports coaches to keep functioning well over time, but little is known about its longitudinal stability. Consequently, this study examined stability and change of emotional, psychological, and social well-being in a sample of 422 sports coaches (M age = 44.48, SD = 11.03) in terms of measurement invariance, rankorder stability, mean-level change, stability of interindividual differences, and structural stability. Participants completed measures of emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing at baseline and again at 3 and 6 months. Multiple perspectives of stability and change were examined using structural equation modeling. The results confirm that the measure of PMH functions equivalently over time. Stability of well-being remained high, with rankorder stability coefficients ranging from .67 to .79 at 3 and 6 months, and no mean-level change in well-being was observed. The results also indicate stable interindividual differences and structural stability of PMH over time. These results confirm the importance of addressing any symptoms of diminished PMH in the coaching population.

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“…Perhaps the most notable and well-researched syndrome is burnout, a chronic condition that involves feelings of emotional/physical exhaustion, low accomplishment, and sport devaluation (Eklund & DeFreese, 2020). Burnout has been studied extensively with athletes (see Madigan et al, 2022) but is experienced by other sport participants such as coaches (Ackeret et al, 2022) and officials (Taylor et al, 1990). It is generally considered to be a syndrome that develops over time (Eklund & DeFreese, 2020), suggesting that burnout should tend to increase as a season progresses (e.g., Bentzen et al, 2016; Quested & Duda, 2011).…”

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

Schellenberg,

Verner-Filion,

Gaudreau

et al. 2024

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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People often feel passionate toward activities in sport. But passion can change, and we know very little about how or when passion for sport changes over time. Here, we present a hypothesis about how, when, and why passion changes over time-the seasonal attenuation of passion hypothesis-which predicts that levels of passion toward activities will tend to decline over the course of a season in sport. We tested this hypothesis in three studies with intercollegiate volleyball players (N = 421), intercollegiate athletes from various sports (N = 298), and fans of the Winnipeg Jets (N = 418). In each study, participants reported levels of passion (i.e., harmonious passion, obsessive passion, general passion) at either the start and end of a season (Study 1) or at the start, middle, and end of a season (Studies 2 and 3). Using latent change score modeling (Study 1) and latent growth modeling (Studies 2 and 3), we found that all scores of passion decreased over the course of each season. This has implications for our understanding of how passion changes over time, especially in sporting activities which are often organized in recurring seasons; there appears to be a tendency for a season to sap people's passion over time.

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Six-month stability of individual differences in sports coaches’ burnout, self-compassion and social support

Cited by 12 publications

References 96 publications

Self-compassion mediates the relationship between alexithymia and learning burnout in Chinese primary and secondary school students: A cross-sectional study

Self-compassion mediates the relationship between alexithymia and learning burnout in Chinese primary and secondary school students: A cross-sectional study

Positive mental health among sports coaches: A 6-month longitudinal study.

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

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