Adaptation of T. Raedeke, A. Smith questionnaire to assess the mental burnout of russian athletes

The actuality of a problem of burnout of different qualification athletes is connected with its negative consequences: motivation decrease to trainings, efficiency of training and competitive activity, premature leaving sport. In the scientific literature, athletic burnout is defined as chronic physical and emotional exhaustion, a reduced sense of accomplishment as well as sport devaluation. The study purpose was evaluation of psychometric properties of the Russian version of ABQ (Athlete Burnout Questionnaire) by Maslach and Jackson. ABQ adaptation was conducted on one sample of adolescent athletes involved in individual sport disciplines. 182 athletes were investigation participants. ABQ-test measures 3 scales: reduction of feeling of achievement, an emotional/physical exhaustion, depreciation (devaluation) of achievements. To identify indicators of athletes burnout interrelationship with the personal characteristics of different qualification athletes their personality characteristics were investigated: personal anxiety, locus of control, motivation of achievement of success and avoiding of failures, self-esteem, level of aspiration. Thus, the development of burnout contribute to high personality anxiety, low motivation to succeed, unrealistic self-esteem and level of aspiration, a high discrepancy between self-esteem and level of aspiration. Athlete Burnout Questionnaire demonstrates good psychometric properties. Thus Russian sport psychologists received a new diagnostic instrument to precise athletes' burnout.