Burnout profiles among esports players: associations with mental toughness and resilience

Poulus, DR, Sargeant, J, Zarate, D, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Stavropoulos, V, 2024. Burnout profiles among esports players: associations with mental toughness and resilience. Journal of Sports Sciences. ISSN 0264-0414

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Abstract

The present study investigated burnout among esports players and its association with mental toughness and resilience. Esports players (N = 453; Mage = 23.0, SD = 4.18; in the top 40% of in-game rank) from seven team-based esports completed the Athlete Burnout Scale (ABO-S), Mental Toughness Questionnaire 18 (MTQ-18), and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10). Latent profile analysis identified three distinct burnout profiles: “low burnout risk” (LBR; 33.8%), “medium burnout risk” (MBR; 28.0%), and “high burnout risk” (HBR; 38.3%). Low burnout profiles were associated with higher mental toughness and resilience. The LBR profile was characterized by low levels of reduced accomplishment (RA), physical exhaustion (PE), and negative feelings (NF), while [MBR and HBR reported similar PE and NF scores but] differed in RA, with HBR showing the highest RA and total burnout. This study is the first to show distinct burnout profiles among esports players, indicating a significant prevalence of burnout symptoms. This should be monitored by both players and support staff (e.g. club managers, programme managers, and high-performance support staff). Additionally, mental toughness and resilience appear to play a protective role against burnout.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Sports Sciences
Creators:	Poulus, D.R., Sargeant, J., Zarate, D., Griffiths, M.D. and Stavropoulos, V.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	22 September 2024
ISSN:	0264-0414
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/02640414.2024.2405794 DOI 2223804 Other
Rights:	© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	24 Sep 2024 08:59
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 08:59
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52292

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