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Relationship between Leadership among Peers and Burnout in Sports Teams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2017

Julio Torrado ,
Constantino Arce ,
Ángel Vales-Vázquez ,
Alberto Areces ,
Gabriel Iglesias ,
Iván Valle  and
Gabriel Patiño
Julio Torrado*
Affiliation:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Constantino Arce
Affiliation:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Ángel Vales-Vázquez
Affiliation:
Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
Alberto Areces
Affiliation:
Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
Gabriel Iglesias
Affiliation:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Iván Valle
Affiliation:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Gabriel Patiño
Affiliation:
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Julio Torrado Quintela. Facultad de Psicología. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Campus Vida s/n. 15782. Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Phone: +34–881813783. E-mail: julio.torrado@usc.es
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

ABQburnoutleadershipSPLS
Type
Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 20 , 2017 , E21
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2017 

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