Relationship between leadership among peers and burnout in sports teams

  1. Julio Torrado Quintela
  2. Constantino Arce Fernández
  3. Ángel Vales Vázquez
  4. Alberto Areces Gayo
  5. Gabriel Iglesias
  6. Iván Valle
  7. Gabriel Patiño
Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 20

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2017.18 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

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Resumen

This study has been conducted with the aim of ascertaining the relationship between peer leaders in sport teams and the levels of burnout experienced by their team-mates. A total of 219 Spanish athletes involved in football and basketball participated in the study. To measure leadership among peers, we employed the Sports Peer Leadership Scale, which comprises 24 items, grouped into 6 primary factors: empathy, influence on decision making, sports values, social support, training orientation and competition orientation. And to measure burnout, we employed the Athlete Burnout Questionnaire, which comprises 15 items which are indicators of physical and emotional exhaustion, devaluation and reduced sense of accomplishment among athletes. The results led to the conclusion that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between perceived leadership capacity and the levels of burnout experience by a team. The greater the level of leadership capacity perceived, the lower the levels of burnout will be. A multiple regression analysis with total burnout as dependent variable and social and task orientations of the leader as predictors showed standardized regression coefficients of –.241 (p = .010) and –.076 (p = .413), respectively for social and task orientation, being the effect size equal to .089.

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