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. 2019 Jul 11;7(7):171.
doi: 10.3390/sports7070171.

Burnout and Perceived Performance Among Junior Athletes-Associations with Affective and Cognitive Components of Stress

Frode Moen  1 , Maria Hrozanova  2 , Tore C Stiles  3 , Frode Stenseng  4
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Burnout and Perceived Performance Among Junior Athletes-Associations with Affective and Cognitive Components of Stress

Frode Moen et al. Sports (Basel). .

Abstract

The current study investigated associations between cognitive components such as psychological resilience and perceived stress, and affective components such as positive and negative affect, and athlete burnout and perceived performance among 670 Norwegian junior athletes attending high schools specialized for sports. A hypothesized model of the relations between the constructs was analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM). The results in the current study show that athlete resilience is a key in understanding athlete burnout and perceived performance, and that cognitive (perceived stress) and affective reactions (negative and positive affect) are important mediators in this process.

Keywords: affect; athlete burnout; performance; resilience; sport.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The observed significant relations between the variables in the theoretical model in the study.
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