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The main purpose of the current study was to examine how the coach-athlete working alliance, psychological resilience and perceived stress are uniquely associated with burnout among junior athletes in sport. A sample of 670 Norwegian junior athletes practicing a variety of sports participated in the study. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that the bond dimension of the working alliance, the protective factors 'planned future' and 'structured style', as well as perceived stress, all contributed uniquely to the explanation of athlete burnout. A dominance analysis identified perceived stress to have the strongest relative influence on athlete burnout among the set of variables investigated in this study. The findings are discussed in terms of applied implications and possible future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality of the coach-athlete relationship has been linked to athlete burnout in previous studies. However, few studies have examined individual factors among athletes that may affect this association, and in particular among young athletes with high activity involvement. Hence, in the present study, we studied the potential mediating role of athletes' resiliency in the effect of the working alliance of the coach and the athlete on the athletes' levels of burnout. Six-hundred and seventy junior athletes from 21 Norwegian high schools specialized for sports participated in a web-based syrvey study where 49% males and 51% were females, and 78% o f the athletes had ambitions to become future elite athletes in their sports. Structural equation modeling analyses showed a strong positive association between the coach-athlete working alliance and resilience, and a strong negative association between resilience and burnout. A moderate association was found between the coach-athlete working alliance athlete burnout. Furthermore, a mediational relationship was detected, where the effect of working alliance on less burnout partly was explained by an indirect effect of working alliance through more resilience in the athlete. The current study highlights the importance of a strong working alliance between coaches and athletes to develop athlete resilience, and the importance of athlete resilience as a buffer to prevent occurences of athlete burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]